Spelling Morphology The Psycholinguistics of Hebrew Spelling /

• Main Author: Ravid, Dorit Diskin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education, 3
• Subjects: Education.; Applied linguistics.; Comparative linguistics.; Psycholinguistics.; Semitic languages.; Language and education.; Language Education.; Semitic Languages.; Comparative Linguistics.; Applied Linguistics.

Modern Hebrew is a highly synthetic Semitic language—its 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. A...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction: A Linguist’s Journey Towards Written Language
• Chapter 1: The Psycholinguistics of Spelling: Phonology and Beyond
• Chapter 2: Morphological Scaffolding in Learning to Spell: A Cross-linguistic Review
• Chapter 3: Spelling, Lexicon and Morphology
• Chapter 4: Historical and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Hebrew
• Chapter 5: The Hebrew Phonology-orthographic Infrastructure
• Chapter 6: Morpho-orthographic Infrastructure
• Chapter 7: Root and Function Letters .-  Chapter 8: The Phono-morpho-orthographic AHWY אהו"י Juncture
• Chapter 9: Spelling Cues in Nominals
• Chapter 10: Spelling Cues in Nominal Inflection
• Chapter 11: Spelling Cues in Verb Formation
• Chapter 12: Conclusion: The Psycholinguistics of Hebrew Spelling
• Subject index.