The contribution of morphology to the consistency of spelling-to-sound relations: A quantitative analysis based on French elementary school readers

By Ronald Peereman, Liliane Sprenger-Charolles, Souhila Messaoud-Galusi
English

Abstract

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. 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 (Lété et al., 2004). The database generated during this study, Manulex_morpho, has been made available via the internet.

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