Eintrag

Titel

Measuring graphematic transparency. German and Italian compared

Personen

Martin Neef, Miriam Balestra

Jahr

2011

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Written language and literacy

ISSN

1387-6732

Seiten

109 - 142

Band

14

Heft

1

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Italienisch

Schlagwörter

Graphem
Kontrastiv

Abstract

In this article, a quantitative method to calculate the graphematic transparency of an alphabetic writing system is suggested. Graphematic transparency is a part of the traditional concept of orthographic depth, dealing with the direction from written representation to phonological representation only. Based on a thorough analysis of German graphematics given in Neef (2005a) and a tentative analysis of Italian graphematics, the respective gt-values are calculated in a constant theoretical framework. As expected, the gt-value for Italian is lower than that for German. For assessing the relevance of these calculated gt-values, further analyses of other writing systems are necessary.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/75117