WLA5 research/education tools

WLA5. Development of tools for research and for teaching: Manulex

Responsable: Liliane Sprenger-Charolles

Members: Sprenger-Charolles, New

Other members: Peereman (LPNC-Grenoble); Messaoud-Galusi, S. (World Bank)

Description

In alphabetic writing systems, the consistency of grapheme-phoneme (GP) and phoneme-grapheme (PG) relations is a key factor in learning to read and write (Sprenger-Charolles, Colé, & Serniclaes, 2006; Ziegler & Goswami, 2005). The difficulty of the tasks facing beginning readers/spellers in different orthographies is typically estimated using quantitative data on the consistency of GP or PG relations in the written words to which children are exposed. However, until now, these relations have been examined independently of morphological analysis. The present study aims to examine the contribution of morphological information (mainly inflectional morphology) to the consistency of GP and PG correspondences in a set of nearly 10,000 words found in French primary school readers (which represent 98% of the 2,000,000 words included in Lété et al., 2004). The results are published (Peereman, Sprenger-Charolles, & Messaoud-Galusi, 2013) and the database generated during this study, Manulex_morpho, has been made available via the internet (http://webu2.upmf-grenoble.fr/LPNC/resources/ronald_peereman/Manulex_morpho/).

In continuation, and on the same corpus, an encoding of derivational markers is being performed.

Papers:

(1) Peereman, R., Sprenger-Charolles, L. & Messaoud-Galusi, S. (2013). The Contribution of Morphology to the Consistency of Spelling-to-Sound Relations: A Quantitative Analysis Based on French Elementary School Readers. Topics in Cognitive Psychology – Année Psychologique, 113, 3-33