Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

delimitación ortográfica

English translation:

orthographic delimitation

Added to glossary by peter jackson
Sep 5, 2018 11:45
5 yrs ago
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Spanish term

delimitación ortográfica

Spanish to English Social Sciences Linguistics
This is from an eye-tracking study on reading words containing derivational suffixes. I really am not quite sure what the autor means here. "delimitación ortográfica only has three hits on Google, none of which are much help.

Así, los sufijos derivativos tienen la propiedad lingüística de ser periféricos con respecto a las bases (Varela, 1990) de modo que si hay un sufijo derivativo, entonces no existe una unidad léxica posterior. Esta propiedad supondría que en el caso de las palabras largas con saliencia alta –así como en las palabras más cortas con independencia de la saliencia-, los lectores podrían obtener inicialmente información relevante acerca de la lexicalidad del estímulo, de su longitud y ***delimitación ortográfica*** esperable y por supuesto también de la propia identificación de la palabra en cuestión.

TIA
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4 +1 orthographic delimitation

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orthographic delimitation

Okay, so there aren't many hits for it on Google, but for such a specialised, recondite linguistic term, that not surprising.
"For example, "retrogressive assimilation" only gets about 300.

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Note added at 14 mins (2018-09-05 12:00:17 GMT)
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A related term, "orthographic boundary", also gets very few hits on Google (roughly 200).

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Note added at 15 mins (2018-09-05 12:01:17 GMT)
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Reconsidering the role of orthographic redundancy in visual word ...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435237/
by F Chetail - ‎2015 - ‎Cited by 13 - ‎Related articles
May 18, 2015 - ... to be higher within morphemes than between them, leading to an orthographic boundary between the letters E and U (Rastle et al., 2004).

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Note added at 16 mins (2018-09-05 12:01:55 GMT)
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The delimitation part is about the boundaries…
Example sentence:

However, orthographic delimitation represents a mixture of different linguistic phenomena

Note from asker:
Thanks, Neil. In the end I have just put orthographic delimitation, despite not really knowing what it means. Perhaps it just means the word's spelling. Who knows? I have just finished 7000 words of this!
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard : I'm not really clear what this means, which is probably the author's fault, but it seems the obvious translation.
2 hrs
Spanish linguists bang on about stuff like this all the time. I don't really see the point of much of it myself.
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