Transcoding number words by bilingual speakers of Arabic: writing multi-digit numbers in a units-decades inverting language.
Arabic presents a double challenge in transcoding number-words to numerals because multi-digit numbers are stipulated as units before decades (UD inversion), and it is written right-to-left. Both these aspects are reversed in relation to the direction of writing numerals. We tested the effects of th...
| Publicado en: | Writing Systems Research Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 188 - 203 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=146195509&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 146195509 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 17586801 8P32 jtl: Writing Systems Research issn: 17586801 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2019 vid: 11 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 146195509 10.1080/17586801.2020.1787298 ppf: 188 ppct: 15 formats: tig: atl: Transcoding number words by bilingual speakers of Arabic: writing multi-digit numbers in a units-decades inverting language. aug: au: Hayek, Maisam Karni, Avi Eviatar, Zohar affil: The Edmond J Safra Brain Research Centre for the Study of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel The Sagol Department of Neurobiology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Institute for Information Processing and Decision Making, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel su: Transcoding Writing processes Native language Short-term memory Sociolinguistics Numerals sug: subj: Transcoding Writing processes Native language Short-term memory Sociolinguistics Numerals keyword: bilingualism inversion numerical trans-coding writing direction writing numerals (Arabic digits) ab: Arabic presents a double challenge in transcoding number-words to numerals because multi-digit numbers are stipulated as units before decades (UD inversion), and it is written right-to-left. Both these aspects are reversed in relation to the direction of writing numerals. We tested the effects of the UD-inversion in multi-digit number words (e.g. four hundred, three and twenty) on transcoding heard or read number-words to numerals, by adult native speakers of Arabic, who were also highly proficient in Hebrew (also written right to left, but without inversion). Speakers of Arabic were slower to complete the task in the standard (UD) format compared to their own performance in the non-standard (DU) format in Arabic. Moreover, presented with standard Arabic, most speakers of Arabic were inconsistent in the order of writing decades and units; often following the UD order of the number-words. As a control condition, Arabic and Hebrew speakers tested in English, performed equally well with faster performance in the DU format. We conjecture that native speakers of Arabic resort to a writing strategy that can reduce the added load on working memory imposed by the UD inversion in standard Arabic, but even in adults transcoding from the Arabic is taxing. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y dt: @attributes: year: 2019 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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