Links
• Manulex is an online searchable
lexical database that provides the frequency of occurrence of
23,900 lemmas and 48,900 orthographic forms extracted from a
corpus of 54 school reading manuals. The word frequency used in
Manulex_infra and Manulex_morpho are based on
Manulex.The Manulex website also allows the online consultation
of the old version of Manulex_infra: Manulex
infra Version 1.
Database publications
• Peereman, R., & Sprenger-Charolles, L. (2018).
Manulex-Morpho, une base de données sur l’orthographe du
français intégrant les morpho-phonogrammes. Numéro spécial «
Lire-écrire : des savoirs scientifiques aux savoirs pratiques ».
Langue Française, 199, 99-109. doi.org/10.3917/lf.199.0099
• Peereman, R., Sprenger-Charolles, L., & Messaoud-Galusi,
S. (2013). The contribution of morphology to the consistency of
spelling-to-sound relations: A quantitative analysis based on
French elementary school readers. Annee Psychologique, 113,
3-33. doi.org/10.4074/S0003503313001012 - - [PDF]
• Peereman, R., Lété, B., & Sprenger-Charolles, L. (2007).
Manulex-Infra: Distributional characteristics of
grapheme-phoneme mappings, infra-lexical and lexical units in
child-directed written material. Behavior Research Methods,
39, 579-589.
doi.org/10.3758/BF03193029 - - [PDF]
Related publications
• Ruiz, J.P., Lassault, J. Sprenger charolles, L., Richardson,
U.A., Lyytinen, H. & Ziegler J.C. (2017). GraphoGame : un
outil numérique pour enfants en difficultés d’apprentissage de
la lecture. A.N.A.E., 148, 247-256. hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01909660
• Sprenger-charolles, L. (2017). Une progression pédagogique
construite à partir de statistiques sur l’orthographe du
français (d’après Manulex-Morpho) : pour les lecteurs débutants
et atypiques. A.N.A.E., 148, 233-243. DGE ac-noumea
• Lété, B., Peereman, R. & Fayol, M. (2008). Consistency and
word-frequency effects on spelling among first- to fifth-grade
French children : A regression-based study. Journal of
Memory and Language, 58, 952-977.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2008.01.001
Other works that used the databases
• EGRA [Early Grade Reading Assessment toolkit] (2017).
This assessment protocol is based on the principles of
Curriculum Based Measures (CBM). It assesses pre-reading and
word reading/writing skills (invented and frequent) in French as
well as reading and oral comprehension. Students are tested
individually, using timed-tests to derive fluency scores.
EGRA_Toolkit_2nd_Ed_French-Final.pdf
• EvalAide (2019). EvalAide (2019) assesses reading and
reading-related skills in French, among first graders (beginning
and middle of CP/G1) and second graders 2 (beginning of CE1/G2).
The assessment’s objective is to identify individual students
needs and adapt instructional content accordingly. The main
scientific data and practical constraints that influenced its
design are described in "Assessments & Interventions", a
text co-authored by the Conseil Scientifique de l'Education
Nationale (CSEN working group). For each subtest, the text
provides the scientific basis underlying its development as well
as its use to diagnose and remediate possible academic
difficulties as early as possible.
EvalAide_CSEN.pdf
• GraphoGame Francais (project led by Johannes
Ziegler). GraphoLearn is an educational App that helps students
learn to read through game-based activities on smartphones and
tablets. Originally developed by the Finnish University of
Jyvaskyla, it has been adapted to the French language by
Johannes Ziegler's team at the Cognitive Psychology Laboratory
(LPC) with funding from e-Fran. Available on the App Store et Google Play.
Other databases related to learning to read and write in French
• Spelling success rate of 1200 words in Quebec children (grade 1 to grade 6) and frequency of occurrence of 14 800 words from school textbooks and children's literature: Stanké, B. et al. (2019). EQOL : Une nouvelle base de données québécoise du lexique scolaire du primaire comportant une échelle d’acquisition de l’orthographe lexicale. Corpus
• Gingras, M., & Sénéchal, M. (2017). Silex: A database
for silent-letter endings in French words. Behavior Research
Methods, 49 , 1894-1904.
doi.org/10.3758/s13428-016-0832-z