Descrizione del progetto
La ricalibrazione fonemica durante il processo di alfabetizzazione
Imparare a leggere ridefinisce il nostro inventario fonemico? Per dimostrare che ciò accade, il progetto ReadCalibration, finanziato dall’UE, approfondirà il tempo di svolgimento e le proprietà dettagliate di tale ricalibrazione. Si tratta della prima analisi sistematica di ricalibrazione fonemica durante il processo di alfabetizzazione. I risultati forniranno informazioni importanti per la ricerca pragmatica e per la documentazione teorica della percezione e della produzione linguistiche, nonché per la ricalibrazione fonemica. Il progetto, che unirà due campi di ricerca (apprendimento della lettura e ricalibrazione fonemica), dimostrerà che le rappresentazioni fonemiche diventano più stabili e meno disperse durante il processo di apprendimento della lettura. Gli esiti del progetto avranno importanti implicazioni per il campo clinico (teorie e rimedi per la dislessia e la sordità) e per l’istruzione e le politiche sociali.
Obiettivo
The main goal of this project is to demonstrate that reading acquisition (RA) drastically reshapes our phonemic inventory, and to investigate the time-course and fine-grained properties of this recalibration. The main innovative and ground-breaking aspect of this project is the merging of two research fields, (1) reading acquisition and (2) phonemic recalibration, together with a deep and extensive exploration of the (3) perception-production link, which results in a new research line that pushes the boundaries of our understanding of the complex interactions between auditory and visual language perception and production.
We will demonstrate that phonemic representations (PRs) become more stable (less dispersed) during the process of learning to read, and that this recalibration varies according to the grapheme-phoneme conversion rules of the reading system. We will explore such recalibration by means of the first cross-linguistic longitudinal study examining the position and dispersion of PRs, both in perception and production of phonemes and words. Secondly, we will explore how recalibration develops when RA is impaired as is the case in dyslexic children –informing the research field on (4) dyslexia– and when pre-reading PRs are unstable as is the case in deaf children with cochlear implants –informing the research field on (5) deafness. Finally, the research will also be extended to PR recalibration during RA in a second language –informing the research on (6) bilingualism.
This proposal provides the first systematic investigation of phonemic recalibration during literacy acquisition, and will provide important insight for pragmatic research and theoretical accounts of language perception and production and phonemic recalibration. This project will also have major implications for the clinical field (theories and remediation of dyslexia and deafness) and for social policies and education (bilingualism, spoken and written language teaching).
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantIstituzione ospitante
20009 San Sebastian
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