Scripts and Literacy:
Subtitle: Reading and Learning to Read Alphabets, Syllabaries and Characters (Neuropsychology and Cognition)
Contributors: I. Taylor (Editor); D.R. Olson (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 31, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780792329121
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Language teaching theory & methods; Reading, Psychology of; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Psychology Of Reading; Language Arts & Disciplines; Reading (Early childhood); Education; Language; Linguistics; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Writing; Graphemics; Literacy
First sentence: Evaluations of writing systems, or a particular script, are all too often based on the twin assumption that it is the purpose of writing to make language visible; and that the alphabet is best suited to achieve this.