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An introduction to reading the world's scripts; Taylor, D.R. Olson. PartI Optional and Optimal Scripts: Scripts and writing systems - a historicalperspective, A. Gaur; Optimal orthographies, H. Rogers; Logographic andsemasiographic writing systems - a critique of Sampson's classification, J.M.Unger, J. DeFrancis; syllabary and the writing system riddle - a paradigm incrisis, S. McCarthy; Developing orthographies - the Athapaskan languages ofthe Northwest Territories, Canada, K.D. Rice; Orthography and reading inKannada - a Dravidian language, P. Prakash, R. Malatesha Joshi. Part IIReading Processes for Different Scripts: How English is read -grapheme-phoneme regularity and orthographic structure in word recognition,R.L. Venezky; Getting at the sound and meaning of logographic and alphabeticscripts, R. Hoosain; Script factors that affect literacy - alphabetic vs.logographic languages, In-Mao Liu; Orthographic and psycholinguisticconsiderations in developing literacy in Chinese, Che Kan Leong; Differentialprocessing of content words and function words - Chinese characters vs.phonetic scripts, I. Taylor, Kwonsaeng Park. Part III Early Stage of Learningto Read: Teaching Japanese toddlers to read Kanji and Kana, M.T. Steinberg;Asymmetries between reading and writing for Japanese children, J. Yamada;Reading disabilities in Japan - implications from the study of hemispherefunctioning, T. Hatta, T. Hirose; Writing systems and acquisition of readingin American, Chinese, and Japanese first-graders, Shin-Ying Lee, D.H. Uttal,Chuansheng Chen; Brahmi scripts, orthographic units and reading acquisition,P.G. Patel; Orthographic and cognitive processing in learning to read Englishand Hebrew, E. Geva. Part IV Cognitive and Metalinguistic Implications ofLearning to Read: Script directionality affects nonlinguistic performance -evidence from Hindi and Urdu, J. Vaid; Cognitive consequences of L1 and L2orthographies, K. Koda; Lexical representation of script variation - evidencefrom Korean biscriptals, Kwonsaeng Park, J. Vaid; Syllabic literacy andcognitive performance among the Cree and Ojibwe people of Northern Canada,J.W. Berry, J.A. Bennett; Orthography, vision, and phonemic awareness, R.J.Scholes