Olga Volckaert-Legrier
List of John Benjamins publications for which Olga Volckaert-Legrier plays a role.
2018 Chapter 13. Texting by 12-year-olds: Features shared with spoken language Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners, Hickmann, Maya †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa (eds.), pp. 265–284 | Chapter
The objective of this chapter is to investigate the development and use of the texting register. Our hypothesis is that this language register shares features with spoken language. In contrast to traditional writing, texting language is not the result of explicit academic instruction. Rather, it is… read more
2014 SMS experience and textisms in young adolescents: Presentation of a longitudinally collected corpus SMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 29–45 | Article
The aim of this paper was to study the characteristics of SMSes in a population for which there is currently only limited data: young adolescents (girls and boys) between 11 and 12 years of age. The analysis focused on a corpus of 4,524 SMSes sent by 19 informants in everyday real-life situations… read more
2014 Automatic or Controlled Writing? The Effect of a Dual Task on SMS Writing in Novice and Expert Adolescents SMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 47–65 | Article
The objective of this study was to attempt to distinguish the various processes of producing SMS spelling forms. The production of these different spelling forms was compared by means of an experimental paradigm: the dual task. This paradigm aimed at identifying the attentional resources necessary… read more
2012 SMS experience and textisms in young adolescents: Presentation of a longitudinally collected corpus SMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 181–198 | Article
The aim of this paper was to study the characteristics of SMSes in a population for which there is currently only limited data: young adolescents (girls and boys) between 11 and 12 years of age. The analysis focused on a corpus of 4,524 SMSes sent by 19 informants in everyday real-life situations… read more
2012 Automatic or Controlled Writing? The Effect of a Dual Task on SMS Writing in Novice and Expert Adolescents SMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 199–217 | Article
The objective of this study was to attempt to distinguish the various processes of producing SMS spelling forms. The production of these different spelling forms was compared by means of an experimental paradigm: the dual task. This paradigm aimed at identifying the attentional resources necessary… read more
2012 How adolescents with dyslexia dysorthographia use texting Written Language & Literacy 15:1, pp. 65–79 | Article
Adolescents with dyslexia dysorthographia have some phonological skill deficiency and/or visual-attention deficit. Knowing that these same skills are required to use SMS codes, the main objective of this study is to understand how these subjects use texting language. To understand this, we… read more