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ERIC Number: EJ1461749
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Feb
Pages: 28
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0922-4777
EISSN: EISSN-1573-0905
Available Date: 2024-03-23
Sensitivity to Morphological Spelling Regularities in Chinese-English Bilinguals and English Monolinguals
Haruka Sophia Iwao1; Sally Andrews1; Aaron Veldre2,3
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v38 n2 p503-530 2025
Evidence of sensitivity to graphotactic and morphological patterns in English spelling has been extensively examined in monolinguals. Comparatively few studies have examined bilinguals' sensitivity to spelling regularities. The present study compared late Chinese-English bilinguals and English monolinguals on their sensitivity to systematic inflectional and derivational spelling regularities. One hundred and twenty-nine undergraduate students completed a forced-choice spelling task, in which nonword pairs were presented in a sentence context requiring a choice of the relevant grammatical form. English ability measures were administered to examine possible inter-individual differences in morphological sensitivity. The results showed that both monolingual and bilingual participants demonstrated knowledge of spelling patterns, but the groups differed in their sensitivity to inflectional and derivational spelling regularities. Specifically, bilinguals showed more consistent use of morphological spelling regularities in guiding their decision on spelling choice compared to monolinguals. The results are argued to be consistent with the predictions of statistical learning accounts of spelling acquisition.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1The University of Sydney, School of Psychology, Sydney, Australia; 2Macquarie University, School of Psychological Sciences, Sydney, Australia; 3University of Technology Sydney, Graduate School of Health, Sydney, Australia