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The Linguistics of Literacy.

This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which cluste...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Downing, Pamela A.
Otros Autores: Lima, Susan D., Noonan, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.
Colección:Typological studies in language ; v. 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • THE LINGUISTICS OF LITERACY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART I:WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE COMPARED; Variation in the intonation and punctuationof different adverbial clause typesin spoken and written English; Informationflowin speaking and writing; How is conversation like literary discourse? The role of imagery and details in creating involvement; Modern American poetry and modern American speech; PART II:ORTHOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS; Segmentalismin linguistics The alphabetic basis of phonological theory.
  • The syllabic origin of writing and the segmental origin of the alphabetPhonemic segmentation as epiphenomenonEvidence from the history of alphabetic writing; Aspiration and Cherokee orthographies; Interpreting Emai orthographic strategies; Linguistic aspects of musical and mathematical notation; PART III:THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ORTHOGRAPHY; Orthographic aspects of linguistic competence; The costs and benefits of phonological analysis; Morphological relationships revealed through the repetition priming task; Orthography and phonologyThe psychological reality of orthographic depth.
  • A model of lexical storageEvidence from second language learners' orthographic errorsPART IV:CONSEQUENCES OF LITERACY; Writing is a technology that restructures thought; Language index; Author index; Subject index.