Overview
- No book has ever been written about spelling acquisition in Hebrew
- Provides the most comprehensive and detailed model linguistically-based of Hebrew orthography
- Integrates, for the first time, linguistic insights and developmental psycholinguistic evidence for the acquisition of spelling
- Will serve as an indispensable guide for students, scholars, and practitioners in learning about Hebrew spelling and morphology in development
Part of the book series: Literacy Studies (LITS, volume 3)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Modern Hebrew is a highly synthetic Semitic languageāits lexicon is rich in morphemes. This volume supplies the first in-depth psycholinguistic analysis of the interaction between morphological knowledge and spelling in Hebrew. It also examines how far this model can be applied to other languages. Anchored to a connectionist, cognitive, cross-linguistic and typological framework, the study accords with todayās perception of spelling as being much more than a mere technical skill. Contemporary psycholinguistic literature views spelling as a window on what people know about words and their structure. The strong correlation between orthographies and morphological units makes linking consistent grammatical and lexical representation and spelling units in speaker-writers a key research goal. Hebrewās wealth of morphological structures, reflected in its written form, promotes morphological perception and strategies in those who speak and write it, adding vitality and relevance to this work.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dorit Ravid is a linguist and psycholinguist working on the acquisition of Hebrew and the development of linguistic literacy at the School of Education and the Department of Communications Disorders, Tel Aviv University. She has published extensively on early and later language acquisition in Hebrew and Arabic, the nature of spelling acquisition, the development of discourse production abilities, and on language learning in special populations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spelling Morphology
Book Subtitle: The Psycholinguistics of Hebrew Spelling
Authors: Dorit Diskin Ravid
Series Title: Literacy Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0588-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0587-1Published: 31 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2957-9Published: 24 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0588-8Published: 31 August 2011
Series ISSN: 2214-000X
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 188
Topics: Language Education, Semitic Languages, Psycholinguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Applied Linguistics