Word Segmentation in Early Written Narratives  

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Ferreiro, Emilia ; Pontecorvo, Clotilde

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 16 no. 1 (2002), page 1-17.
Fulltext: Vol. 16, No. 1, p 1-17.pdf (871.95KB)

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This comparative study aims at understanding which the difficulties children face in word segmentation in early writings. The term ‘word’ is both a metalinguistic and an everyday term. Rules about word separationhave evolved over many years and are now normative in the languages these children are trying to write: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. Children hesitate precisely at those places where historically there was also hesitation. They probably face similar difficultieswith the conceptual definition of the ‘word’. A total of 987 texts written by second- and third-grade children (7 to 9 years) were collectedin Argentina, Brazil, Italy,Mexico and Uruguay, in a large number of different schools. The children were asked to write the story of Little Red Riding Hood, well known by childrenin those cultures.The normative view ledto a quantitativeanalysisof ‘deviations’ from present language orthographies to give an overall picture of the situation. The interpretativeattitude aimedat understanding children’s writing and is related to a qualitative analysis of the written strings where the most of the deviations are located. Illegal segmentations in Italian and Spanish concentrate in specific graphic positions, that aresimilarforhypo- andhypersegmentationsin the twowriting systems.

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