Dominiek Sandra
Biographic Data
| ID | 4333074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominiek Sandra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominiek |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandra |
| SIGNATURE | SANDRA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0836-4840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The orthographic representation of a word's morphological structure
In this paper we present a review of the literature on the role of a word's morphological structure in written language processing, with an emphasis on spelling. First, we describe that many orthographies have opted for a representation of a word's morphological structure. Second, we discuss experiments that have demonstrated the importance of a word's morphological structure in reading, both in isolated word recognition experiments (so-called bl…
Gender accommodation in teenagers’ spelling of regular verb homophones on social media
The present study investigates the effect of interlocutors’ gender on the production of persistent verb spelling errors in adolescents’ private online communication. Specifically, we examine whether boys adapt to the – more standard – spelling practices of girls, and whether girls produce more errors in conversations with boys. We focus on (presumably) unintentional spelling errors in regular Dutch verb forms, i.e., ‘features’ one would rather av…
The impact of analogical effects and social factors on the spelling of partially homophonous verb forms in informal social media writing
The present study examines unintentional spelling errors on past participles produced by Flemish teenagers in private online writing. Previous psycholinguistic research on verb spelling errors in Dutch mainly focused on identical homophones ( Bosman 2005 ; Frisson & Sandra 2002 ; Sandra et al. 1999 ). The present study, however, deals with past participles that are only partially homophonous with other forms in the inflectional paradigm and inves…
Spelling, Psychology of
When Two Basic Principles Clash
Written chatspeak is said to be marked by two basic principles: (1) write like you speak and (2) write as fast as possible. As for Flemish chat language, the first principle seems to result in a multilayered mixed code, in which dialectical, substandard Flemish and standard Dutch features interact in an eclectic way. In addition, most of the chatters insert English words in their chat discourse as well. This intensive code mixing is assumed to be…
Homophone Dominance at the Whole-word and Sub-word Levels
Two experiments and two corpus studies focus on homophone dominance in the spelling of regularly inflected verb forms, the phenomenon that the higher-frequency homophone causes more intrusion errors on the lower-frequency one than vice versa. Experiment 1 was a speeded dictation task focusing on the Dutch imperative, a verb form whose formation rule is poorly known. A clear-cut effect of homophone dominance was found. This effect was equally stro…
Still errors after all those years
We review some of our research findings on verb spelling errors in Dutch. The spelling of Dutch regularly inflected verb forms is governed by rules of the simple concatenative type (stem + suffix). The spelling of a subset of these verb forms is determined by morpheme-based analogy, both at the level of the stem-final letter and at the level of the inaudible (i.e., silent) suffix. This subset of verb forms causes many spelling problems, both in t…
Compound fracture
Processing Unfamiliar Metaphors in a Self-Paced Reading Task
In 2 self-paced reading experiments, we investigate the processing characteristics of unfamiliar metaphorical subject-predicate structures. The literal first hypothesis predicts that processing metaphorical expressions of the type an x is a y will proceed more slowly than in the case of literal statements of the same type. This prediction is confirmed: At the position of the metaphorical term, reaction times were indeed higher for the metaphorica…
Processing Unfamiliar Metaphors in a Self-Paced Reading Task
In 2 self-paced reading experiments, we investigate the processing characteristics of unfamiliar metaphorical subject–predicate structures. The literal first hypothesis pre-dicts that processing metaphorical expressions of the type “an x is a y ” will proceed more slowly than in the case of literal statements of the same type. This prediction is confirmed: At the position of the metaphorical term, reaction times were indeed higher for the metapho…
Network analyses of prepositional meaning
Article Network analyses of prepositional meaning: Mirroring whose mind—the linguist’s or the language user’s? was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal Cognitive Linguistics (volume 6, issue 1)
Is Morphology used to encode Derivations when Learning a Foreign Language
Derived words suggest a very efficient mnemonic when they have to be learnt as items in a foreign language (FL). They could be remembered by tagging in semantic memory the property that is lexicalized by the stem and storing the particular affix. A learning experiment was designed to find out whether students make spontaneous use of this encoding strategy. The results indicated that subjects' recall performance was better for derived words than u…
Network analyses of prepositional meaning
Article Network analyses of prepositional meaning: Mirroring whose mind—the linguist’s or the language user’s? was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal Cognitive Linguistics (volume 6, issue 1)
Homophone Dominance at the Whole-word and Sub-word Levels
Two experiments and two corpus studies focus on homophone dominance in the spelling of regularly inflected verb forms, the phenomenon that the higher-frequency homophone causes more intrusion errors on the lower-frequency one than vice versa. Experiment 1 was a speeded dictation task focusing on the Dutch imperative, a verb form whose formation rule is poorly known. A clear-cut effect of homophone dominance was found. This effect was equally stro…
Is Morphology used to encode Derivations when Learning a Foreign Language
Derived words suggest a very efficient mnemonic when they have to be learnt as items in a foreign language (FL). They could be remembered by tagging in semantic memory the property that is lexicalized by the stem and storing the particular affix. A learning experiment was designed to find out whether students make spontaneous use of this encoding strategy. The results indicated that subjects' recall performance was better for derived words than u…
Network analyses of prepositional meaning
Article Network analyses of prepositional meaning: Mirroring whose mind—the linguist’s or the language user’s? was published on January 1, 1995 in the journal Cognitive Linguistics (volume 6, issue 1)
Processing Unfamiliar Metaphors in a Self-Paced Reading Task
In 2 self-paced reading experiments, we investigate the processing characteristics of unfamiliar metaphorical subject-predicate structures. The literal first hypothesis predicts that processing metaphorical expressions of the type an x is a y will proceed more slowly than in the case of literal statements of the same type. This prediction is confirmed: At the position of the metaphorical term, reaction times were indeed higher for the metaphorica…
Processing Unfamiliar Metaphors in a Self-Paced Reading Task
In 2 self-paced reading experiments, we investigate the processing characteristics of unfamiliar metaphorical subject–predicate structures. The literal first hypothesis pre-dicts that processing metaphorical expressions of the type “an x is a y ” will proceed more slowly than in the case of literal statements of the same type. This prediction is confirmed: At the position of the metaphorical term, reaction times were indeed higher for the metapho…
Compound fracture
Still errors after all those years
We review some of our research findings on verb spelling errors in Dutch. The spelling of Dutch regularly inflected verb forms is governed by rules of the simple concatenative type (stem + suffix). The spelling of a subset of these verb forms is determined by morpheme-based analogy, both at the level of the stem-final letter and at the level of the inaudible (i.e., silent) suffix. This subset of verb forms causes many spelling problems, both in t…
Homophone Dominance at the Whole-word and Sub-word Levels
Two experiments and two corpus studies focus on homophone dominance in the spelling of regularly inflected verb forms, the phenomenon that the higher-frequency homophone causes more intrusion errors on the lower-frequency one than vice versa. Experiment 1 was a speeded dictation task focusing on the Dutch imperative, a verb form whose formation rule is poorly known. A clear-cut effect of homophone dominance was found. This effect was equally stro…
Spelling, Psychology of
When Two Basic Principles Clash
Written chatspeak is said to be marked by two basic principles: (1) write like you speak and (2) write as fast as possible. As for Flemish chat language, the first principle seems to result in a multilayered mixed code, in which dialectical, substandard Flemish and standard Dutch features interact in an eclectic way. In addition, most of the chatters insert English words in their chat discourse as well. This intensive code mixing is assumed to be…
The impact of analogical effects and social factors on the spelling of partially homophonous verb forms in informal social media writing
The present study examines unintentional spelling errors on past participles produced by Flemish teenagers in private online writing. Previous psycholinguistic research on verb spelling errors in Dutch mainly focused on identical homophones ( Bosman 2005 ; Frisson & Sandra 2002 ; Sandra et al. 1999 ). The present study, however, deals with past participles that are only partially homophonous with other forms in the inflectional paradigm and inves…
Gender accommodation in teenagers’ spelling of regular verb homophones on social media
The present study investigates the effect of interlocutors’ gender on the production of persistent verb spelling errors in adolescents’ private online communication. Specifically, we examine whether boys adapt to the – more standard – spelling practices of girls, and whether girls produce more errors in conversations with boys. We focus on (presumably) unintentional spelling errors in regular Dutch verb forms, i.e., ‘features’ one would rather av…
The orthographic representation of a word's morphological structure
In this paper we present a review of the literature on the role of a word's morphological structure in written language processing, with an emphasis on spelling. First, we describe that many orthographies have opted for a representation of a word's morphological structure. Second, we discuss experiments that have demonstrated the importance of a word's morphological structure in reading, both in isolated word recognition experiments (so-called bl…
Linguistics (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Natural language processing (7 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (6 works) · Spelling (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Morpheme (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works)