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What can a dictation corpus teach us about orthographic variation and the mastery of context-sensitive spellings?
- Source: Nota Bene, Volume 1, Issue 1, Nov 2024, p. 40 - 57
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- 17 Jun 2023
- 11 Dec 2023
- 26 Nov 2024
Abstract
Abstract
La dictée du Balfroid is a very popular dictation contest in French-speaking Belgium. Since its first edition in 1988, thousands of children in the 6th year of primary school have taken part in this event, which meets a large media audience.
In this article, we analyze a corpus of some 11,000 dictations produced during this championship. We focus on orthographic variation and phoneme-grapheme correspondences, particularly for context-sensitive graphemes such as c or g.
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