Invented Spanish spelling: Stress and intonation
- When children learn to write, they must ask themselves two basic questions: what part of the language is represented and how is it represented. Their answers are the source of their invented writings. This article reports data from interviews of Mexican Spanish-speaking children between the ages of 5 and 12 and analyses the child’s point of view about the necessity or the possibility of representing stress and some intonational oppositions. Both processes present undifferentiated writings which reveal that for children, at a given evolutionary stage, contrasts in stress and intonation are not retained in writing (which can be considered as an invented "non-writing"). Likewise, there are invented writings that show original ideas about what and how to represent in writing the linguistic contrasts proposed for their reflection; finally, quasi-conventional or conventional writings appear. Reflections on the universality of learning, problems with comparing graphic systems and their respective acquisition processes are also discussed, as serious consideration should be given to the concept that written languages are mixed and linked systems and not monolithic systems.
Author: | Jorge Vaca Uribe |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-743909 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17239/L1ESLL-2007.07.03.07 |
ISSN: | 1573-1731 |
Parent Title (English): | L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature (L1-ESLL) |
Publisher: | International Association for Research in L1 Education (ARLE) |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2007/10/17 |
Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2024/10/18 |
Tag: | Spanish; intonation; invented spelling; psychogenesis; stress |
GND Keyword: | Schriftspracherwerb; Rechtschreibung; Neologismus; Kindersprache; Akzent; Intonation <Linguistik> |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 3, Special issue Invented Spelling in Various Contexts (2007) |
Page Number: | 15 |
First Page: | 109 |
Last Page: | 123 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
4 Sprache / 46 Spanisch, Portugiesisch / 460 Spanisch, Portugiesisch | |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Spracherwerb / Language acquisition |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |