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In:Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view
Edited by Clotilde Pontecorvo
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy 6] 1997
► pp. ix–xiv

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Published online: 6 November 1997

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Table of contents

Studying writing and writing acquisition today: A multidisciplinary viewxv

Part I: Writing and literacy acquisition: Links between linguistics and psycholinguistics1

1. On the relations between speech and writing3

2. The Unit of Written and Oral Language21

Claire Blanche-Benveniste

3. The Word out of (Conceptual) Context47

Emilia Ferreiro

4. Presschool Knowledge of Language: What Five year olds Know about Language Structue and Language Use61

5. Explicit Word Segmentation and Writing in Hebrew and Spanish77

Liliana Tolchinsky

Part II: Writing and reading in time and culture99

6. Orality/ Literacy, Languages and Alphabets. Examples from Jewish Cultures101

7. The Notion of Orthography. A Latin Inheritance117

Françoise Desbordes

8. Aspects of a History of Written Language Processing. Examples from the Roman world and the early Middle Ages129

Hartmut Guenther

9. Orality in Literate Cultures149

10. The Graphic Space of the School Exercise Books in France in the 19th-20th century173

Part III: Written language competence in monolingual and bilingual contexts191

11. Production and Comprehension of Connectives in the Written Modality. A Study of Written French193

12. Towards a Better Understanding of Biliteracy206

13. Acquisition of Literacy by Immigrant Children219

Part IV: Writing systems, brain structures and languages: a neurolinguistic view241

14. Domain-Specificity and Fractionability of Neuropsychological Processes in Literacy Acquisition243

15. Reading difficulties among English and German Children. Same Cause — Different Manifestation259

16. Neural Organisation and Writing Systems273

Brian Butterworth

Bibliographic references293

Analytic index332