Spelling Morphology: The Psycholinguistics of Hebrew Spelling

by Dorit Diskin Ravid

Book Overview

Modern Hebrew is a highly synthetic Semitic language-its lexicon is rich in morphemes. This volume supplies the first in-depth psycholinguistic analysis of the interaction between morphological knowledge and spelling in Hebrew. It also examines how far this model can be applied to other languages. Anchored to a connectionist, cognitive, cross-linguistic and typological framework, the study accords with today's perception of spelling as being much...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461429579
• ISBN13: 9781461429579
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"