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- Title
Orthography as a handicap? A direct comparison of spelling acquisition in Danish and Icelandic.
- Authors
JUUL, HOLGER; SIGURDSSON, BALDUR
- Abstract
Juul, H.&Sigurdsson, B. (2005). Orthography as a handicap? A direct comparison of spelling acquisition in Danish and Icelandic.Scandinavian Journal of Psychology,46, 263–272.Spelling of cross-linguistically very similar nonwords was compared in 115 Danish and 77 Icelandic children (primarily 3rd and 4th graders). Danish children made more errors than Icelandic children on word medial consonant doublets and on word initial consonant clusters, even when the groups compared were matched on simpler spelling tasks. These results suggest that the acquisition of phonemic encoding skills is slower in“deep” orthographies such as Danish than in more“transparent” orthographies such as Icelandic. The effect of orthography was expected for consonant doublets because of the relatively more complex sound-letter correspondences in Danish. For consonant clusters, however, sound-letter correspondences are perfectly regular in both languages. The study thus points to the conclusion that even the mastery of regular sound-letter correspondences may be delayed in deep orthographies.
- Subjects
ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling; LEARNING; DANISH language; ICELANDIC language; PHONOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2005, Vol 46, Issue 3, p263
- ISSN
0036-5564
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9450.2005.00456.x