Meanings
nounorthographic neighborhood (plural orthographic neighborhoods)
plural orthographic neighborhoods · alternative orthographic neighbourhood
- UScommunicationsThe set of words that can be formed by changing one letter while maintaining letter positions.
In summary, the present experiments have shown that addition and deletion neighbors form part of a word’s orthographic neighborhood.
2009, Colin J. Davis, “Re(de)fining the Orthographic Neighborhood: The Role of Addition and Deletion Neighbors in Lexical Decision and Reading”, in Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 35(5): 1550-1570
Translations
French voisinage orthographique
- voisinage orthographiqueTranslations
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