@article{408b073e7b194566a240fbe2facc5a13,
title = "Spelling errors respect morphology: a corpus study of Hebrew orthography",
abstract = "The paper aims to account for linguistic and processing factors responsible for the incidence of spelling errors in Hebrew. The theoretical goal is to disentangle a complex interaction between morphology, phonology, and orthography in production of written words. We focused on a specific spelling error in Hebrew: an overt representation of the word-internal segment/i/by the letter Y (י). This Y-insertion goes against the prescriptive spelling rules (cf. substandard MYRPST מירפסת vs conventional MRPST מרפסת,/miʁpeset/{\textquoteleft}balcony{\textquoteright}) and yet in our data it affects 25% of nouns with an appropriate phonological environment. Corpus analyses of unedited texts further revealed that errors proliferated in lower-frequency words, but their occurrence was much less likely if it would disrupt a morphological unit. These results point to morphology and statistical patterns of language use in Hebrew as major mechanisms driving orthographic learning: the paper discusses repercussions of our findings for theories of reading.",
keywords = "Corpus study, Hebrew, Morphology, Orthography, Spelling",
author = "Amalia Bar-On and Victor Kuperman",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer Nature B.V.",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1007/s11145-018-9902-1",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "32",
pages = "1107--1128",
journal = "Reading and Writing",
issn = "0922-4777",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "5",
}