What can a dictation corpus teach us about orthographic variation and the mastery of context-sensitive spellings?

Abstract La dictée du Balfroid is a very popular dictation contest in French-speaking Belgium. Since its first edition in 1988, thousands of children in the 6th year of primary school have taken part in this event, which meets a large media audience. In this article, we analyze a corpus of some 11,000 dictations produced during this championship. We focus on orthographic variation and phoneme-grapheme correspondences, particularly for context-sensitive graphemes such as c or g .

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Nota Bene
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2024-11-26
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https://doi.org/10.1075/nb.00004.dis
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Reading and Literacy Development
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What can a dictation corpus teach us about orthographic variation and the mastery of context-sensitive spellings?

Anne Dister, Marie-Louise Moreau
Nota Bene
Reading and Literacy Development
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What can a dictation corpus teach us about orthographic variation and the mastery of context-sensitive spellings?

Anne Dister, Marie-Louise Moreau
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Abstract La dictée du Balfroid is a very popular dictation contest in French-speaking Belgium. Since its first edition in 1988, thousands of children in the 6th year of primary school have taken part in this event, which meets a large media audience. In this article, we analyze a corpus of some 11,000 dictations produced during this championship. We focus on orthographic variation and phoneme-grapheme correspondences, particularly for context-sensitive graphemes such as c or g .

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What can a dictation corpus teach us about orthographic variation and the mastery of context-sensitive spellings? — Anne Dister, Marie-Louise Moreau · Nota Bene (2024) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS