Decisions about consonant doubling among non-native speakers of English: graphotactic and phonological influences

Yin, Li; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Li, Daoxin; Kim, Seon-Kee

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“…These results show that the use of phonological cues to correctly provide singleconsonant spellings after phonologically long vowels is modulated by spelling proficiency. In contrast to previous research by Yin, Joshi, Li, and Kim (2020), who found a stronger influence of phonological cues on consonant doubling in more skilled Chinese and Korean EFL spellers, our study found that more skilled Dutch EFL spellers relied less heavily on phonological cues to consonant doubling. Combined, these findings indicate that which cues are used by EFL learners depends on L1 experience combined with cue reliability.…”

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“…This effect increases with proficiency (Treiman & Boland, 2017;Treiman & Wolter, 2018). Furthermore, L1 spellers show this phonological congruence in choosing between single and double-consonant spellings of pseudowords (Cassar & Treiman, 1997;Deacon et al, 2011) and this effect appears to increase with proficiency in Chinese and Korean EFL learners (Yin, Joshi, Li, & Kim, 2020).…”

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“…A corpus study by Treiman and Boland (2017) established that word-medial consonant doubling is very likely before <en>, <er>, <est>, and <ing> (e.g., in "flipper"), somewhat likely before <age>, <is> and <ow> (e.g., in "village") and unlikely before <ic>, <id>, and <it> (e.g., in "music"). These cues from the following orthographic context appear to be used to choose between single-and double-consonant spellings in both L1 (Treiman & Boland, 2017) and Chinese and Korean EFL (Yin et al, 2020) users. In terms of orthography, then, the accuracy of word-medial consonant spellings may be influenced by the orthographic representation of the word-medial consonants, the spelling of the preceding vowel, and the orthographic congruency of the consonant spellings.…”

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Doubling up: The Influence of Native and Foreign Language Cues in Foreign Language Double Consonant Spelling

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Journal of Writing Research

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In this study, we investigated which spelling cues are used in word-medial consonant spelling by learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Previous research has shown that native speakers of English rely on different cues to decide whether a single ("diner") or double consonant ("dinner") needs to be used in word-medial consonant spelling. These cues include phonology, orthography, morphology and lexical frequency. We investigated whether these cues play a similar role in Dutch spellers who are EFL learners, next to similarity of the English target to Dutch. We analyzed dictation task data that was part of an unsupervised digital learning environment for EFL learning. The error analyses revealed that novice EFL spellers mainly used phonological and cross-linguistic cues in consonant doubling. In contrast, more proficient spellers relied less on phonological cues, and relied on morphological cues instead. The EFL spellers did not rely on orthographic cues. Furthermore, spelling difficulty was influenced by the frequency of a word and its similarity with the native-language equivalent, in terms of cognate status (non-cognate/cognate) and consonant doubling. Together, our findings indicate that a higher number of converging cues facilitates spelling for EFL spellers and that their reliance on cues changes as spelling proficiency increases.

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Doubling up: The Influence of Native and Foreign Language Cues in Foreign Language Double Consonant Spelling

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“…When choosing between single and double consonants, as when choosing between other spelling alternatives, experienced spellers take advantage of the regularities that their writing system offers. The position of a consonant (e.g., word-initial or word-final) and the nature of the adjacent segments (e.g., a preceding short vowel, as in ‹comma›, or a preceding long vowel, as in ‹coma›) provide clues as to whether the consonant should be spelled with a single or a double letter, and spellers benefit from these cues (e.g., Cassar & Treiman, 1997; Pacton, Borchardt, Treiman, Lété, & Fayol, 2014; Sobaco, Treiman, Peereman, Borchardt, & Pacton, 2015; Treiman & Wolter, 2018; Yin, Joshi, Li, & Kim, 2020). The present findings show that experienced spellers of English also consider word class when choosing between single consonants and geminates.…”

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Word class and spelling in English.

Treiman

Jewell

Berg³

et al. 2021

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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The spelling of an English word may reflect its part of speech, not just the sounds within it. In 2 preregistered experiments, we asked whether university students are sensitive to 1 effect of part of speech that has been observed by linguists: that content words (e.g., the noun inn) must be spelled with at least 3 letters, whereas function words (e.g., the preposition in) may have only 2 letters. Participants heard VC (vowel-consonant) and consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC; consonant-vowel-consonant) nonwords that were used as nouns (content words) or prepositions (function words). Participants either spelled the items on their own or chose between options with single and double final consonants (e.g., ib vs. ibb). Participants in the choice task favored final consonant doubling for VCs that were used as nouns. They usually chose single final consonants for VCs that were used as prepositions and for CVCs. Effects of word class were also found in the spelling production task. Final consonant doubling was less common in the production task than the choice task, reflecting participants' reluctance to produce this relatively uncommon spelling pattern. Our results support the view that spelling performance reflects the combined influences of multiple patterns, both phonological and nonphonological.

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Double trouble: Using spellings of different lengths to represent vowel length in English

Altmiller

Treiman

Kessler

2023

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Decisions about consonant doubling among non-native speakers of English: graphotactic and phonological influences

Cited by 4 publications

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Doubling up: The Influence of Native and Foreign Language Cues in Foreign Language Double Consonant Spelling

Doubling up: The Influence of Native and Foreign Language Cues in Foreign Language Double Consonant Spelling

Word class and spelling in English.

Double trouble: Using spellings of different lengths to represent vowel length in English

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