Phonology, Morphonology, Morphology

Akhmanova, O. S.

doi:10.1515/9783110878738

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“…Russian has a much more complex syllable structure than Hebrew, with up to four consonants in a single cluster (Akhmanova, 1971). This phonological complexity has been found to have a positive influence on the development of phonological awareness at the phoneme level with Russian-speaking preschoolers and first-graders able to perform more complex phonological segmentation tasks than Englishspeaking or Hebrew-speaking children (Ibrahim & Eviatar, 2002;Zaretsky, 2002).…”

Section: A Thumbnail Sketch Of Hebrew and Russian Language Orthograpmentioning

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General and specific benefits of bi-literate bilingualism: a Russian–Hebrew study of beginning literacy

Leikin

Schwartz

2009

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The present paper addresses the issue of cross-linguistic transfer of phonemic awareness and word identification skills across two linguistically distant languages (Russian and Hebrew). The role of early literacy learning was directly assessed by distinguishing two groups of Russian-Hebrew speaking bilinguals; bi-literate (n = 39) and mono-literate bilinguals (n = 41), as well as a group of Hebrew-speaking monolinguals (n = 41). In a longitudinal design, a variety of linguistic, meta-linguistic and cognitive tasks were administered at the commencement of first grade, with Hebrew reading and spelling assessed at the end of the year. We observed general and specific benefits of early acquisition of basic Russian (L1) literacy skills to first grade Hebrew (L2) decoding and spelling. General benefits were evident in the cross-linguistic transfer of phonemic awareness from Russian to Hebrew, while more specific benefits were evident in the enhanced ability of bi-literate bilinguals to spell vowels and consonant clusters in Hebrew. These findings are discussed in the context of two alternative hypotheses: "the central processing hypothesis" and "the script dependent hypothesis".

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Section: A Thumbnail Sketch Of Hebrew and Russian Language Orthograpmentioning

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General and specific benefits of bi-literate bilingualism: a Russian–Hebrew study of beginning literacy

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Schwartz

2009

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“…Each one has adduced di¤erent kinds of evidence and considerations in its support-e.g., evidence from psycholinguistics, child language acquisition, cross-linguistic comparison, computational e‰ciency, analytical simplicity, to name a few. Each one has sought to solve its problem by introducing a yet more abstract representation of speech (using the definition of ''abstract'' developed above)-in the quest for a level of representation which will be more orderly and amenable to formal representation than those previously tried (see similar interpretations by Akhmanova 1971;Linell 1979;Love 1992;and Wheeler 1980).…”

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Constraining abstractness: Phonological representation in the light of color terms

2004

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This article o¤ers a general analysis of what it means to say that a representation or concept is ''abstract'', and then applies the analysis in two specific areas, namely color terms research and phonological theory. Starting from acceptance of the widely agreed proposition that cognition involves categorization of reality via mediating concepts, it follows the implications of this idea in metatheoretical analysis of the terms and concepts used in theories about color terms and phonology. In relation to color terms, this analysis gives a way of understanding, and resolving, a debate sparked by Lucy (1997) about the use of the Munsell color chart as the basis of crosslinguistic data collection in this area. In relation to phonological theory, analogous arguments call into question some fundamental tenets of phonological theory, for example the idea that a phonological representation is more abstract than a phonetic representation. The possibility of changing these tenets, and the consequences for both theoretical and applied phonology, are explored in detail.

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“…The simplicity of the "sound-near" phonology is achieved at the cost of rather a strongly irregular higher level component usually called morpho(pho)nology. Morphonology is included into morphology as its subcomponent, or is recognized as a separate level of the language system (cf., e.g., Isacenko 1974, Mel'cuk 1973, Achmanova 1971, Kubriakova-Pankrac 1983 or is occasionally viewed as being a mediating component between phonology and morphology without being a separate level as the two are (cf. Reformatskij 1979).…”

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On the nature of alternations and the So‐Called zero vowel in Russian

Bílý¹

1989

Scando-Slavica

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Phonology, Morphonology, Morphology

Cited by 13 publications

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General and specific benefits of bi-literate bilingualism: a Russian–Hebrew study of beginning literacy

General and specific benefits of bi-literate bilingualism: a Russian–Hebrew study of beginning literacy

Constraining abstractness: Phonological representation in the light of color terms

On the nature of alternations and the So‐Called zero vowel in Russian

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