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Writing Systems and Linguistic StructureEdited by Sang-Oak Lee
[Written Language & Literacy 12:2] 2009
► pp. 161–169
Model for phonemic awareness in readers of Indian script
Aamir Wali | National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
Richard Sproat | Oregon Health and Science University, USA
Prakash Padakannaya | University of Mysore, India
Previous studies have shown that segmental awareness tasks are usually influenced by the script. In this paper, we extend these studies further to propose a more concrete, script-centric metric for evaluating phonemic awareness in readers of Indian scripts. We propose that the ease or difficulty with which syllabic and phonemic segmental tasks are performed is directly proportional to the editing operations involved in applying the same task on the graphic form of the stimulus. We also present a computational model that calculates visual edit distances and uses these to determine if the phonemic task on any given word is easy or difficult. Finally, we tested the predictions of our model using Tamil data.
Keywords: phonemic awareness, segmental awareness, Brahmi-derived scripts, minimal edit distance hypothesis, grapheme
Published online: 15 December 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.12.2.02wal
https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.12.2.02wal
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