Impact of spatial ordering of graphemes in alphasyllabic scripts on phonemic awareness in Indic languages

Kandhadai, Padmapriya; Sproat, Richard

doi:10.1093/wsr/wsq009

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“…Our results also concur with the findings of Kandhadai and Sproat (2010), who reported that native Hindi readers exhibited a significant interference effect of the short-i vowel in a sound deletion task with pseudowords. However, in our study the short-i effect was restricted to words (additional analyses we conducted revealed no misalignment effect in lexical decisions to pseudowords).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Participants were found to make significantly more errors when deleting the onset from syllables with the misaligned, short-i compared to the long-i vowel, whereas no difference in accuracy emerged in a comparison of short and long u-vowel items. Kandhadai and Sproat's (2010) findings thus show that the effect of vowel misalignment extends even to auditory perception among Hindi readers.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…However, in our study the short-i effect was restricted to words (additional analyses we conducted revealed no misalignment effect in lexical decisions to pseudowords). Nevertheless, the very different task demands of the two studies prompts us to suggest that our lack of an effect with pseudowords is not at odds with Kandhadai and Sproat's (2010) results. It may be reasoned that, in a sound deletion task, hearing a pseudoword is likely to evoke the corresponding visual-orthographic form in readers' minds (Chéreau et al 2007), thus drawing attention to any mismatch in graphemephoneme sequence.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…The effect of interest was a processing cost associated with the misaligned short-i vowel/I/previously reported on a naming task in native Hindi readers (Kandhadai and Sproat 2010;Vaid and Gupta 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A related study by Kandhadai and Sproat (2010) asked readers of Hindi to delete the onset consonant from the first syllable of disyllabic pseudowords. The first syllable had a CV structure in which a consonant (e.g.,/k/) was combined with one of four vowels-the short-i/I/, long i/i:/, short u/ʊ/, or long u/u:/.…”

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The processing cost for reading misaligned words is script-specific: evidence from Hindi and Kannada/Hindi readers

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Among biscriptal readers do script-specific orthographic properties in one language affect the processing of words in their other language? This question was examined with respect to the seriality effect, a phenomenon first reported by Vaid and Gupta (Brain Lang 81:679-690, 2002). In this effect, native readers of Hindi are slower to name words whose written and spoken order is misaligned (e.g., the word win is written I-W-N), as compared to words containing letters whose written order is congruent with their spoken order. The present study examined whether the seriality effect is restricted to stimuli presented in the original script (Hindi) or carries over to affect processing in a structurally similar but visuospatially different script (Kannada) which does not have the same misalignment. In a lexical decision task, slower responses to misaligned than to aligned Hindi words were observed in both readers of Hindi and in KannadaHindi biliterates; however, biliterates' responses were not slower to cognates of Hindi misaligned words presented in Kannada script. These findings suggest that processing costs associated with orthographic conventions of a particular script do not carry over to another script, even when the scripts in question share similar design principles. More generally, our findings suggest that the processing of orthographic knowledge relating to the sequencing of sounds and letters is script-specific.

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Developmental dyslexia in Hindi readers: Is consistent sound‐symbol mapping an asset in reading? Evidence from phonological and visuospatial working memory

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2019

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Phonological processing deficit is a hallmark of developmental dyslexia indicating a core cognitive dysfunction. Importance of working memory in reading and its association with the tasks measuring phonological processing is also debated in research. The present study investigates the role of working memory, phonological, and orthographic processing in Hindi‐speaking dyslexic children (22 dyslexic and 23 control, of Grade 4). Hindi has a consistent symbol‐sound mapping with an extensive list of visually complex graphemes. Although consistent symbol‐sound mapping facilitates reading, graphemic complexity has its cost on memory. A range of tasks measuring phonological processing, working memory, and orthographic knowledge was designed and administered. Dyslexic children scored significantly lower than controls not only on working memory tasks but also on the tasks of phonological processing and orthographic knowledge. Moreover, the difference in working memory between dyslexic and normal children was more pronounced with increased task complexity. These results highlight complex relationships between working memory, phonological and orthographic processing together with visual attentional processing in Hindi, that contribute to the reading deficits encountered by children with dyslexia. Their respective contributions are considered in the discussion with some of the visual and phonological features of Hindi orthography and their associated effects in reading.

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Impact of spatial ordering of graphemes in alphasyllabic scripts on phonemic awareness in Indic languages

Cited by 63 publications

References 16 publications

The processing cost for reading misaligned words is script-specific: evidence from Hindi and Kannada/Hindi readers

The processing cost for reading misaligned words is script-specific: evidence from Hindi and Kannada/Hindi readers

Reading the Akshara Writing System

Developmental dyslexia in Hindi readers: Is consistent sound‐symbol mapping an asset in reading? Evidence from phonological and visuospatial working memory

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