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Written Language & Literacy
Vol. 26:2 (2023) ► pp.266–291

The analysis of errors in written word and sentence production

The value of a classification for French

| Laboratoire de NeuroPsychoLinguistique – LNPL – E.A. 4156,
| Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL),
| Laboratoire CeRCA, CNRS-UMR 7295,
This paper proposes a linguistic theoretical review of French spelling surrounding regularity and consistency questions both in the description of forms and in the estimation of regularity. After having described the terminological ambiguity that prevails in these analyses and after having shown the impact of this ambiguity on the analysis of written errors, we propose a new classification of French written errors passing through theoretically-driven and concept-driven analyses. This classification, focuses on the production of lexical and grammatical spelling created for the DynaPen project and is available on OSF.
Keywords: cognitive science, errors classification, French language, orthography, theoretical review, writing.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Going back to the start: Theoretically-driven analyses of written French
  • 3.Evolution towards data-driven analyses of written French
  • 4.Current classification
  • 5.Proposal for a spelling error analysis grid for French
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
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