Scripts and Literacy

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An introduction to reading the world's scripts Taylor, D.R. Olson. Part I Optional and Optimal Scripts: Scripts and writing systems - a historical perspective, A. Gaur Optimal orthographies, H. Rogers Logographic and semasiographic writing systems - a critique of Sampson's classification, J.M. Unger, J. DeFrancis syllabary and the writing system riddle - a paradigm in crisis, S. McCarthy Developing orthographies - the Athapaskan languages of the Northwest Territories, Canada, K.D. Rice Orthography and reading in Kannada - a Dravidian language, P. Prakash, R. Malatesha Joshi. Part II Reading Processes for Different Scripts: How English is read - grapheme-phoneme regularity and orthographic structure in word recognition, R.L. Venezky Getting at the sound and meaning of logographic and alphabetic scripts, R. Hoosain Script factors that affect literacy - alphabetic vs. logographic languages, In-Mao Liu Orthographic and psycholinguistic considerations in developing literacy in Chinese, Che Kan Leong Differential processing of content words and function words - Chinese characters vs. phonetic scripts, I. Taylor, Kwonsaeng Park. Part III Early Stage of Learning to Read: Teaching Japanese toddlers to read Kanji and Kana, M.T. Steinberg Asymmetries between reading and writing for Japanese children, J. Yamada Reading disabilities in Japan - implications from the study of hemisphere functioning, T. Hatta, T. Hirose Writing systems and acquisition of reading in American, Chinese, and Japanese first-graders, Shin-Ying Lee, D.H. Uttal, Chuansheng Chen Brahmi scripts, orthographic units and reading acquisition, P.G. Patel Orthographic and cognitive processing in learning to read English and Hebrew, E. Geva. Part IV Cognitive and Metalinguistic Implications of Learning to Read: Script directionality affects nonlinguistic performance - evidence from Hindi and Urdu, J. Vaid Cognitive consequences of L1 and L2 orthographies, K. Koda Lexical representation of script variation - evidence from Korean biscriptals, Kwonsaeng Park, J. Vaid Syllabic literacy and cognitive performance among the Cree and Ojibwe people of Northern Canada, J.W. Berry, J.A. Bennett Orthography, vision, and phonemic awareness, R.J. Scholes

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