Writing Systems and Cognition

Perspectives from Psychology, Physiology, Linguistics, and Semiotics

By: William C. Watt (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 December 1993

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In this distinguished collection the deeper cognitive aspects of writing systems are for the first time added to the perceptual and physiological dimensions and brought into a coherent whole. The result is a multifaceted understanding of alphabets and other scripts in which none of the major factors that shape those systems, and thus distinctively reveal attributes of the human mind, are slighted. The systems through which language is realized on the page are compared in nature and complexity with those through which language is realized as sound, and are seen in their true perspective. Long the object of intensive inquiry, the process of change in phonological systems is now joined to the evolution of graphological systems, and new light is cast on the nature of the relevant human cognitive processes in their diversity and underlying unity. The authors, each eminently qualified in his or her field, are drawn from Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Reading, Writing, and the Difference
Introduction	p. 3
Orthography, Reading Disability, and Cerebral Organization	p. 11
Predicting Reading Ability from the "Invented" Spellings of Kindergarten Children	p. 37
A Note on Teaching Writing to Rio Slum Children	p. 59
Spelling as Culture	p. 67
Writing-Systems
Introduction	p. 89
Some Graphotactic Constraints	p. 115
Some Thoughts on a Historico-Genetic Theory of the Lettershapes of our Alphabet	p. 129
Developmental Morphographemics II	p. 141
Determinacy Analysis and Contrastive Orthography	p. 183
Curves as Angles	p. 215
Empirical Methods for Evaluating Generative Semiotic Models: An Application to the Roman Majuscules	p. 247
Hieratic is Beautiful: Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy Revisited	p. 293
Forerunners of Writing: The Social Implications	p. 303
On the Interaction of Greek Orthography and Phonology: Consonant Clusters in the Syllabic Scripts	p. 311
The Scribal Tract
Introduction	p. 337
Sensory and Motor Functions of the Hand	p. 347
Handwriting and the Writing Hand	p. 375
Authors' Affiliations	p. 461
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