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Definition of orthography in English: orthographynounPlural orthographies ɔːˈθɒɡrəfiɔrˈθɑɡrəfi 1The conventional spelling system of a language. a spoken language which has as yet no sanctioned orthography Example sentencesExamples - These findings are consistent with previous reports that visual processing contributes to prediction of reading skills both in English and Chinese orthographies.
- The orthographies of the world's major languages, however, became standardized in the context of publishing books, using any orthography that people would read.
- For example, in one of the orthographies proposed for the French-based Creole spoken in the Dominican Republic, ‘Today I am sick’ would be written as zordi mwe malad, while in French, this would be aujourd'hui je suis malade.
- Finally, it is important to acknowledge the logical possibility that phonological recoding may operate differently across different orthographies.
- In French, as well as in deep orthographies like English, some transcriptions are best represented at the morpheme level rather than at the phonological level.
- In fact, those insights will sometimes be decisive in the standardization of orthographies for indigenous languages, as is the case for the PROPELCA experiment in Cameroon.
- In the case of Cquila there is a distinct suggestion of the orthographies of Southern Bantu languages like Zulu.
- However, Aro and Wimmer further show that reading fluency or automaticity for pseudoword reading is affected not only by the regularity of orthographies but also other factors.
- A bi-alphabetic edition of Shaw's play Androcles and the Lion was published by Penguin Books in 1962 to demonstrate the old and new orthographies side by side, the texts running parallel on facing pages.
- Because the orthographies of Spanish and English present intriguing contrasts and similarities, these two languages provide ideal vehicles for initial study of spelling transfer.
- The awareness of component sounds is arguably a more critical aspect of early literacy development in orthographies such as English where these segments are less explicitly and irregularly marked in the written language.
- Among designers of orthographies for previously nonwritten languages, the prevailing wisdom is that native speakers of tone languages need to see at least some tones marked to achieve full literacy in those languages.
- In other words, even the written form of the language is not clearly preserved in a definite form, as opposed to hinted at in various fragments in different orthographies.
- Although nineteenth-century missionaries created orthographies and dictionaries for some of the languages, indigenous literature is mostly oral.
- Not all letter-sound associations are easy to state explicitly or are completely consistent in many of the world's orthographies, nor are they often explicitly taught past the early stages of instruction.
- At least in some orthographies, semantics play a larger role in single-word naming than previously thought.
- Those orthographies made it possible to write Chinese phonetically and to write spoken Japanese terms that had no equivalent Chinese characters.
- And there is some hope that open-source projects such as Pango will allow programmers to intervene directly to solve the problems, at least partially, for the languages and orthographies that they care about.
- This issue was discussed in relation to developing strategies in attentional control in reading Turkish, and regular versus irregular orthographies.
- Turkish was omitted from the Smythe et al. review of dyslexia across languages despite reports of dyslexia in transparent orthographies (Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish).
- 1.1mass noun The study of spelling and how letters combine to represent sounds and form words.
Example sentencesExamples - Per normal English orthography / pronunciation rules, one would expect to pronounce ‘leafleter’ ‘leaf-leeter.’
- The combination of alphabetic orthography and Google is an interesting new tool for language identification!
- Thurstan Peter's transcript appears to be reasonably accurate as regards spelling and orthography.
- The textbase available to the present writer permits only the counting of very common words, since only these are standardised in orthography in the texts, and there is no tagging beyond selected common word types.
- While most of her misspellings simply reflect her lack of knowledge of standard Spanish orthography, the words listed below demonstrate her nonstandard pronunciation.
- Garifuna spellings vary because there is no common orthography (method of spelling), which is spoken in five Central American countries.
- This work comprises eighteen books, the first sixteen setting out, after a brief introduction to orthography, the eight Latin word classes (parts of speech) in great detail.
- What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
- This does not deny the importance of work by linguists on problems of orthography.
- The orthography requires both accents above and dots below certain letters, and getting this rendered correctly on the web without special fonts remains a bit chancy.
- So it's a mixture of information about orthography, syntax; it has a small grammar section, and over time it's expanded what's contained within that.
- The former will probably most appreciate the extensive explanations Oliver provides on orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and her updating of the arguments with the latest scholarship.
- The WASPT has several sections, including reading comprehension, vocabulary, orthography and stress mark, and writing composition.
- Shaw's knowledge of phonetics and views on literacy led him to demand a rational system of spelling which would follow the sounds of English and reduce time wasted by traditional orthography.
- All the foils were unrelated in meaning, sound, and orthography to the study sets.
- The modern Turkish orthography consists of 29 Roman letters and was designed to embody sounds in the spoken language in a totally transparent manner.
- The Third Part relates to grammar, syntax, orthography, vowels and consonants.
- But Rayner also readily acknowledges that orthography, semantics and syntax are important in reading.
- His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology, phonetics and orthography.
- But those attitudes belong to the past, along with grammar drills and orthography.
2 another term for orthographic projection
Derivatives noun ɔːˈθɒɡrəfəɔrˈθɑɡrəfər 1A person who studies and writes about spelling and how letters combine to represent sounds and form words. a prominent linguist and orthographer of the dialect - 1.1 A skilled speller.
Example sentencesExamples - Professional social scientists will regret that it has no tables and orthographers will wonder why Princeton's usually diligent proofreaders did not correct such solecisms as ‘multifaceted,’ and ‘Pentacostal.’
- an orthographer doesn't deign to use spellcheck
adjective ɔːθəˈɡrafɪkˌɔrθəˈɡræfɪk In linguistics, the status of an item as a compound depends more on phonological than orthographic criteria, but in typography the orthographic forms have great importance. Example sentencesExamples - These results suggest that the acquisition of phonological skills is a necessary step in building the orthographic lexicon.
- Competent readers are able to recognize and directly retrieve words from an orthographic lexicon consisting of a large number of memory representations of word spellings.
- Thus, orthographic differences now disguise what is a similar pronunciation and make the languages look more different in their written form than they are when spoken.
- Just as a name must conform to the phonological system of the language, so the way it is written must conform to the orthographic conventions of the language.
adjective ɔːθəˈɡrafɪk(ə)l Letters display the kind of orthographical and punctuational errors that one is supposed to have left behind by the tenth grade. Example sentencesExamples - I will not offer any criticism of the sentiments or idiom of this stanza, for what irked me was the word ‘flippertigibbets,’ which seemed an unnecessary orthographical variation intended only to catch attention it did not deserve.
- With him scientific scholarship really began, and his work covered the wide range of grammatical, etymological, orthographical, literary, and textual criticism.
- How many designers today would be capable of writing the kind of detailed editorial and orthographical style guide that Spencer produced for Lund Humphries, Typographica's printer?
- Personal names are part of any language and obey most of its general rules, whether phonological, morphological, syntactic, orthographical or semantic.
adverb ɔːθəˈɡrafɪk(ə)liˌɔrθəˈɡræfək(ə)li Overall, evidence from Hebrew shows indeed that these ambiguous letters are orthographically represented last and the weakest. Example sentencesExamples - By ANALOGY, an intrusive r occurs where it is not etymologically or orthographically justified: sofa rhymes with gopher, but in The sofa/r is lost an r sound often intrudes.
- Cross-cutting these distinctions, we need to distinguish between the way that such sounds are performed, and the way that they're represented orthographically.
- It's pretty common for the syllable written with orthographic ‘y’ to vanish in this word, in versions generally indicated orthographically as ever'body, but to get to urr'body we need to lose another syllable as well.
- Inevitably, these sites are being called photologs (or, more commonly, the more orthographically challenged fotologs).
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French and Latin from Greek orthographia, from orthos 'correct' + -graphia 'writing'. Rhymes autobiography, bibliography, biography, cardiography, cartography, chirography, choreography, chromatography, cinematography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, filmography, geography, hagiography, historiography, hydrography, iconography, lexicography, lithography, oceanography, palaeography (US paleography), photography, radiography, reprography, stenography, topography, typography Definition of orthography in US English: orthographynounôrˈTHäɡrəfēɔrˈθɑɡrəfi 1The conventional spelling system of a language. a spoken language which has as yet no sanctioned orthography Example sentencesExamples - At least in some orthographies, semantics play a larger role in single-word naming than previously thought.
- For example, in one of the orthographies proposed for the French-based Creole spoken in the Dominican Republic, ‘Today I am sick’ would be written as zordi mwe malad, while in French, this would be aujourd'hui je suis malade.
- Because the orthographies of Spanish and English present intriguing contrasts and similarities, these two languages provide ideal vehicles for initial study of spelling transfer.
- Turkish was omitted from the Smythe et al. review of dyslexia across languages despite reports of dyslexia in transparent orthographies (Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish).
- Not all letter-sound associations are easy to state explicitly or are completely consistent in many of the world's orthographies, nor are they often explicitly taught past the early stages of instruction.
- And there is some hope that open-source projects such as Pango will allow programmers to intervene directly to solve the problems, at least partially, for the languages and orthographies that they care about.
- In the case of Cquila there is a distinct suggestion of the orthographies of Southern Bantu languages like Zulu.
- However, Aro and Wimmer further show that reading fluency or automaticity for pseudoword reading is affected not only by the regularity of orthographies but also other factors.
- In fact, those insights will sometimes be decisive in the standardization of orthographies for indigenous languages, as is the case for the PROPELCA experiment in Cameroon.
- Although nineteenth-century missionaries created orthographies and dictionaries for some of the languages, indigenous literature is mostly oral.
- A bi-alphabetic edition of Shaw's play Androcles and the Lion was published by Penguin Books in 1962 to demonstrate the old and new orthographies side by side, the texts running parallel on facing pages.
- The orthographies of the world's major languages, however, became standardized in the context of publishing books, using any orthography that people would read.
- Among designers of orthographies for previously nonwritten languages, the prevailing wisdom is that native speakers of tone languages need to see at least some tones marked to achieve full literacy in those languages.
- Finally, it is important to acknowledge the logical possibility that phonological recoding may operate differently across different orthographies.
- In other words, even the written form of the language is not clearly preserved in a definite form, as opposed to hinted at in various fragments in different orthographies.
- In French, as well as in deep orthographies like English, some transcriptions are best represented at the morpheme level rather than at the phonological level.
- Those orthographies made it possible to write Chinese phonetically and to write spoken Japanese terms that had no equivalent Chinese characters.
- This issue was discussed in relation to developing strategies in attentional control in reading Turkish, and regular versus irregular orthographies.
- These findings are consistent with previous reports that visual processing contributes to prediction of reading skills both in English and Chinese orthographies.
- The awareness of component sounds is arguably a more critical aspect of early literacy development in orthographies such as English where these segments are less explicitly and irregularly marked in the written language.
- 1.1 The study of spelling and how letters combine to represent sounds and form words.
Example sentencesExamples - The WASPT has several sections, including reading comprehension, vocabulary, orthography and stress mark, and writing composition.
- This work comprises eighteen books, the first sixteen setting out, after a brief introduction to orthography, the eight Latin word classes (parts of speech) in great detail.
- Garifuna spellings vary because there is no common orthography (method of spelling), which is spoken in five Central American countries.
- Shaw's knowledge of phonetics and views on literacy led him to demand a rational system of spelling which would follow the sounds of English and reduce time wasted by traditional orthography.
- Thurstan Peter's transcript appears to be reasonably accurate as regards spelling and orthography.
- The textbase available to the present writer permits only the counting of very common words, since only these are standardised in orthography in the texts, and there is no tagging beyond selected common word types.
- But Rayner also readily acknowledges that orthography, semantics and syntax are important in reading.
- The Third Part relates to grammar, syntax, orthography, vowels and consonants.
- But those attitudes belong to the past, along with grammar drills and orthography.
- All the foils were unrelated in meaning, sound, and orthography to the study sets.
- While most of her misspellings simply reflect her lack of knowledge of standard Spanish orthography, the words listed below demonstrate her nonstandard pronunciation.
- The orthography requires both accents above and dots below certain letters, and getting this rendered correctly on the web without special fonts remains a bit chancy.
- Per normal English orthography / pronunciation rules, one would expect to pronounce ‘leafleter’ ‘leaf-leeter.’
- The former will probably most appreciate the extensive explanations Oliver provides on orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and her updating of the arguments with the latest scholarship.
- This does not deny the importance of work by linguists on problems of orthography.
- The combination of alphabetic orthography and Google is an interesting new tool for language identification!
- What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
- So it's a mixture of information about orthography, syntax; it has a small grammar section, and over time it's expanded what's contained within that.
- His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology, phonetics and orthography.
- The modern Turkish orthography consists of 29 Roman letters and was designed to embody sounds in the spoken language in a totally transparent manner.
2 another term for orthographic projection
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French and Latin from Greek orthographia, from orthos ‘correct’ + -graphia ‘writing’. |