Scripts and Literacy : Reading and Learning to Read Alphabets, Syllabaries and Characters

By: David R. Olson (Editor), Insup Taylor (Editor)

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Literacy is a concern of all nations of the world, whether they be classified as developed or undeveloped. A person must be able to read and write in order to function adequately in society, and reading and writing require a script. But what kinds of scripts are in use today, and how do they influence the acquisition, use and spread of literacy? Scripts and Literacy is the first book to systematically explore how the nature of a script affects how it is read and how one learns to read and write it. It reveals the similarities underlying the world's scripts and the features that distinguish how they are read. Scholars from different parts of the world describe several different scripts, e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian Amerindian -- and how they are learned. Research data and theories are presented. This book should be of primary interest to educators and researchers in reading and writing around the world.

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Preface
An Introduction to Reading the World's Scripts	p. 1
Scripts and Writing Systems: A Historical Perspective	p. 19
Optimal Orthographies	p. 31
Logographic and Semasiographic Writing Systems: A Critique of Sampson's Classification	p. 45
The Cree Syllabary and the Writing System Riddle: A Paradigm in Crisis	p. 59
Developing Orthographies: The Athapaskan Languages of the Northwest Territories, Canada	p. 77
Orthography and Reading in Kannada: A Dravidian Language	p. 95
How English is Read: Grapheme-Phoneme Regularity and Orthographic Structure in Word Recognition	p. 111
Getting at the Sound and Meaning of Logographic and Alphabetic Scripts	p. 131
Script Factors that Affect Literacy: Alphabetic vs. Logographic Languages	p. 145
Orthographic and Psycholinguistic Considerations in Developing Literacy in Chinese	p. 163
Differential Processing of Content Words and Function Words: Chinese Characters vs. Phonetic Scripts	p. 185
Teaching Japanese Toddlers to Read Kanji and Kana	p. 199
Asymmetries between Reading and Writing for Japanese Children	p. 215
Reading Disabilities in Japan: Implications from the Study of Hemisphere Functioning	p. 231
Writing Systems and Acquisition of Reading in American, Chinese and Japanese First-Graders	p. 247
Brahmi Scripts, Orthographic Units and Reading Acquisition	p. 265
Orthographic and Cognitive Processing in Learning to Read English and Hebrew	p. 277
Script Directionality Affects Nonlinguistic Performance: Evidence from Hindi and Urdu	p. 295
Cognitive Consequences of L1 and L2 Orthographies	p. 311
Lexical Representation of Script Variation: Evidence from Korean Biscriptals	p. 327
Syllabic Literacy and Cognitive Performance among the Cree and Ojibwe People of Northern Canada	p. 341
Orthography, Vision, and Phonemic Awareness	p. 359
Index	p. 375
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