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Lexical and inflectional spelling abilities in French : Same or different ?
Binamé, Florence; Poncelet, Martine
2011Congrès de la BAPS
 

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Keywords :
Lexical spelling; Inflectional spelling
Abstract :
[en] Inflectional spelling abilities have been less extensively studied than lexical spelling abilities and the relationship between these two types of spelling abilities is poorly understood. In this study, we compared lexical and inflectional spelling abilities in 12-year-old children, by hypothesizing that attentional load may be particularly detrimental for sentence context-dependent inflectional spelling abilities, in contrast to sentence context-independent lexical spelling abilities. Ninety-five sixth graders had to write to dictation sentences containing orthographically inconsistent words as well as inflected words (plural nouns and verbs at the 3th person) in three different cognitive load conditions. In a medium load condition, a time constraint obliged the subjects to write the sentences as quickly as possible. In a high load condition, the participants had to write the sentences as quickly as possible while further carrying out calculation problems (additions). The minimal load condition corresponded to standard writing to dictation, with no time constraint or any secondary task. The number of spelling errors for orthographically inconsistent words (lexical spelling abilities) and inflected words (inflectional spelling abilities) was calculated for each condition. We observed that spelling performance for inconsistent words was not impacted by cognitive load. On the other hand, spelling performance for inflected words decreased significantly in the medium and high load conditions. These results suggest that inflectional spelling abilities are less proceduralized than lexical spelling abilities, and rely to a greater extent on cognitive control processes.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Binamé, Florence ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Neuropsychologie du langage et des apprentissages
Poncelet, Martine ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Neuropsychologie du langage et des apprentissages
Language :
English
Title :
Lexical and inflectional spelling abilities in French : Same or different ?
Publication date :
27 May 2011
Event name :
Congrès de la BAPS
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