• DOI:10.56769/ijpn03104
• Corpus ID: 259759796

Unravelling Portuguese Phonological Encodability: A new method for assessing spelling under dictation difficulty

@article{Capovilla2016UnravellingPP,
  title={Unravelling Portuguese Phonological Encodability: A new method for assessing spelling under dictation difficulty},
  author={Fernando C. Capovilla and Rodrigo Coelho and Tiago Tib{\'e}rio Luz and Luiz Eduardo Graton-Santos and Miriam Damazio},
  journal={International Journal of Psychology and Neuroscience},
  year={2016},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:259759796}
}

• Fernando C. Capovilla, Rodrigo Coelho, +2 authors Miriam Damazio
• Published in International journal of… 31 August 2016
• Linguistics

Abstract The paper proposes a new theoretical and experimental model for measuring the encodability of Brazilian Portuguese, in order to permit estimating the spelling difficulty degree of any given spoken word in Portuguese during writing under auditory dictation tests. The model uses Portuguese Phoneme- Grapheme Encoding Index Tables, derived from the analysis of 4.55 million Phoneme-Grapheme Relationships. According to the encodability model, the degree of spelling difficulty presented by… 

Abstract The paper proposes a new theoretical and experimental model for measuring the encodability of Brazilian Portuguese, in order to permit estimating the spelling difficulty degree of any given spoken word in Portuguese during writing under auditory dictation tests. The model uses Portuguese Phoneme- Grapheme Encoding Index Tables, derived from the analysis of 4.55 million Phoneme-Grapheme Relationships. According to the encodability model, the degree of spelling difficulty presented by any given spoken word corresponds to the arithmetic mean of the Encoding Indexes involved in spelling the spoken word under auditory dictation. In a study conducted to assess whether the encodability model can account for encoding precision, 154 students (61 from college and 93 from elementary school) spelled under dictation 560 very rare spoken words made up of 280 different Phoneme-Grapheme Relationships. Each student was required to encode approximately 3,676 instances of voice units. Regression analysis revealed that word spelling precision increased with word encodability degree. The study suggests that the present Encodability model is a powerful tool for predicting word-spelling precision in Portuguese. Keywords: spelling, dictation, phonology, encoding, encodability, assessment