Shorts Message Services of deaf teenagers and adults: what can we learn from their spontaneous writing ?

2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Marion Fabre ◽  
Marie-Laure Barbier ◽  
Nicole Jullien
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Writing

scholarly journals Kanji and Kana agraphia in mild cognitive impairment and dementia: A trans-cultural comparison of elderly Japanese subjects living in Japan and Brazil

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyoko Akanuma ◽  
Kenichi Meguro ◽  
Mitsue Meguro ◽  
Rosa Yuka Sato Chubaci ◽  
Paulo Caramelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Prevalence Study ◽  
Clinical Dementia Rating ◽  
Spontaneous Writing ◽  
Elderly Japanese ◽  
Questionable Dementia ◽  
State Examination ◽  
Japanese Subjects

Abstract This study verifies the environmental effects on agraphia in mild cognitive impairment and dementia. We compared elderly Japanese subjects living in Japan and Brazil. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the database of the Prevalence Study 1998 in Tajiri (n=497, Miyagi, Japan) and the Prevalence Study 1997 of elderly Japanese immigrants living in Brazil (n=166, migrated from Japan and living in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area). In three Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) groups, i.e., CDR 0 (healthy), CDR 0.5 (questionable dementia), and CDR 1+ (dementia) , the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) item of spontaneous writing and the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI) domain of dictation were analyzed with regard to the number of Kanji and Kana characters. Formal errors in characters and pragmatic errors were also analyzed. Results: The immigrants in Brazil wrote similar numbers of Kanji or Kana characters compared to the residents of Japan. In spontaneous writing, the formal Kanji errors were greater in the CDR 1+ group of immigrants. In writing from dictation, all the immigrant CDR groups made more formal errors in Kana than the Japan residents. No significant differences in pragmatic errors were detected between the two groups. Conclusions: Subjects living in Japan use Kanji frequently, and thus the form of written characters was simplified, which might be assessed as mild formal errors. In immigrants, the deterioration in Kanji and Kana writing was partly due to decreased daily usage of the characters. Lower levels of education of immigrants might also be related to the number of Kanji errors.

scholarly journals Sprachgeographische Aspekte der Morphologie und Verschriftung in schweizerdeutschen Chats

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beat Siebenhaar
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Alpine Regions ◽  
Identical Distribution ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Traditional Structure ◽  
Spontaneous Writing ◽  
German Speaking

The regional chat-rooms in Switzerland show an extremely high portion of dialectal contributions (up to 90%). This non-standardized spontaneous writing of a dialectal language still reflects the geolinguistic distribution described in the linguistic atlas of German speaking Switzerland SDS (1962-1997) based on recordings of the 1940s and 1950s. This paper shows some reflexes of this geolinguistic distribution in four chat-rooms. The graphemic representation of the ending vowel of infinitives clearly confirms the traditional structure. Deviating e-graphemes in chat-rooms of alpine regions can be rated as common Swiss German variants for centralized vowels. On the other hand ä-graphemes in chat-rooms of the Swiss midlands are to be rated as marking of the phonetic deviation from the standard German pronunciation. This variation is not only found in inherited words, but also in neologisms with an almost identical distribution. The SDS illustrates a distribution for the use of t-endings in the 2nd and 3rd singular of sein 'to be'. These t-flexives cannot be found anymore in midland chat-rooms. They appear only in alpine chat-rooms, and there they become morphologized in a new way. The dialectal writing of neologisms confirms the validity of the principles for the Standard German writing.

Definiteness in written Swedish by Finnish-speaking immersion pupils at the end of immersion

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-84
Author(s):  
Eeva-Liisa Nyqvist
Keyword(s):  
Control Group ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Definite Form ◽  
Spontaneous Writing ◽  
Acquisition Order ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
Better Than

Abstract There are two primary goals for this study – first, to analyse definiteness and article use in spontaneous writing in Swedish by 15-year-old Finnish immersion students (n = 162) and secondly, to compare their performance with that of non-immersion students at the same age (n = 67). Analyses at the group level show that immersion students usually perform significantly better than the control group, but they also reveal similar problems to what L2-Swedish non-immersion students have demonstrated in previous studies, such as omission of indefinite articles and difficulty in choosing the right definite form of the noun. Still, these inaccuracies occurred less often in the data from the immersion students. The studied constructions also show at the group level an acquisition order similar to that reported in previous studies, explainable by different aspects of complexity and cross-linguistic influence. Analyses on the individual level, however, show different acquisition orders depending on the criteria being used.

Social media, spontaneous writing and dictation. Spelling variation

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
LOUISE-AMELIE COUGNON ◽  
LENAIS MASKENS ◽  
SOPHIE ROEKHAUT ◽  
CEDRICK FAIRON
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Traditional Spelling ◽  
Communication Situations ◽  
Linguistic Representations ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Spontaneous Writing ◽  
Spelling Variation ◽  
Media And Communication

ABSTRACTThis study investigates the hypothesis of young people having the multi-skills required to switch between formal and informal communication. We collected samples of the written output of students across different media and communication situations. The results obtained through dictation tests show that the students’ level is relatively low, with a majority of grammatical errors. The analysis of linguistic forms common to the corpora indicates that all the participants use traditional spelling in at least one of them. Lastly, we present a qualitative analysis of spelling variation and an overview of the teenagers’ linguistic representations.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Spontaneous Writing Errors of Normal and Aphasic Writers

Cortex ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa M. Sgaramella ◽  
Andrew W. Ellis ◽  
Carlo Semenza
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Writing ◽  
Writing Errors

Writing grammar rather than tone

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Roberts ◽  
Stephen L. Walter
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Third Way ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Spontaneous Writing ◽  
Experimental Strategies

Some orthographies represent tone phonemically by means of diacritics; others favor zero marking. Neither solution is entirely satisfactory. The former leads to graphic overload; the latter to a profusion of homographs; both may reduce fluency. But there is a ‘third way’: to highlight the grammar rather than the tone system itself. To test this approach, we developed two experimental strategies for Kabiye: a grammar orthography and a tone orthography. Both are modifications of the standard orthography that does not mark tone. We tested these in a quantitative experiment involving literate L1 speakers that included dictation and spontaneous writing. Writers of the grammar orthography perform faster and more accurately than writers of the tone orthography, suggesting that they have an awareness of the morphological and syntactic structure of their language that may exceed their awareness of its phonology. This suggests that languages with grammatical tone might benefit from grammatical markers in the orthography. Keywords: tone; grammar; orthography; African languages; quantitative experiment

SSW: Sustained Spontaneous Writing

1985 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen D'Angelo Bromley
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Writing

Cognitive Predictors of Articulation in Writing

1979 ◽  
Vol 48 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1151-1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Wormack
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Spatial Ability ◽  
Spatial Visualization ◽  
Cerebral Lateralization ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Cognitive Predictors ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Spontaneous Writing ◽  
Embedded Figures ◽  
Writing Scores

Among 106 college students scores on a spontaneous 20-min. essay were regressed on referents of verbal and visual spatial ability. 26% of the variability in writing articulation among males was accounted for by the regression of graded writing scores against logical relations and embedded figures tests. 82% of the variability in writing ability among females was accounted for by the regression of graded writing scores on visual closure, reading comprehension, spatial visualization, and embedded figures tests. The use of verbal and visual spatial referents as predictors of the degree of articulation in spontaneous writing samples consistent with sex-specific models of cerebral lateralization was described.

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