A new online tool helps users to cope with the complex orthography of compound words in English. It is based on an analysis of more than 10,000 words by LMU linguist Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer.

Recent research in orthography and second language (L2) speech processing has increasingly demonstrated that the written form of a language plays a pivotal role in shaping the way learners acquire ...

The Ilokano writers' groups over the weekend accused Almario and Delima of "incompetence in preparing the Ilokano orthography that didn’t conform with the existing orthography being used by the ...

Research and clinical practitioners have mixed views whether reading and spelling difficulties should be combined or seen as separate. This study examined the following: (a) if double dissociation ...

The late Dr. Parker P. McKenzie (1897-1999), a Kiowa, developed a written orthography for his tribal language, only the second American Indian to do so. McKenzie's work provides the most accurate ...