Reading hebrew: How necessary is the graphemic representation of vowels?

D. Navon; J. Shimron

doi:10.4324/9781315107448-8

Reading hebrew: How necessary is the graphemic representation of vowels?

D. Navon, J. Shimron

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

The distinctive properties of the Hebrew script are described. The most prominent of these is that vowels are typically signified by diacritical marks. Everyday texts omit diacritical marks altogether, hence most vocalic information is not represented directly in them. The history of the Hebrew writing system is outlined. Some experimental studies that capitalize on the special characteristics of the Hebrew script are described. The main conclusion drawn from them was that grapheme-to-phoneme translation is applied in word naming.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Orthographies and Reading
Subtitle of host publication	Perspectives from Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, and Linguistics
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	91-102
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351607094
ISBN (Print)	9781138092440
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107448-8
State	Published - 1 Jan 2017

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© 1984 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd.

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