Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents ix
3. Studying writing and writing acquisition today: A multidisciplinary view xv
4. Part I: Writing and literacy acquisition: Links between linguistics and psycholinguistics
5. 1. On the relations between speech and writing 3
6. 2. The Unit of Written and Oral Language 21
7. 3. The Word out of (Conceptual) Context 47
8. 4. Presschool Knowledge of Language: What Five year olds Know about Language Structue and Language Use 61
9. 5. Explicit Word Segmentation and Writing in Hebrew and Spanish 77
10. Part II: Writing and reading in time and culture
11. 6. Orality/ Literacy, Languages and Alphabets. Examples from Jewish Cultures 101
12. 7. The Notion of Orthography. A Latin Inheritance 117
13. 8. Aspects of a History of Written Language Processing. Examples from the Roman world and the early Middle Ages 129
14. 9. Orality in Literate Cultures 149
15. 10. The Graphic Space of the School Exercise Books in France in the 19th-20th century 173
16. Part III: Written language competence in monolingual and bilingual contexts
17. 11. Production and Comprehension of Connectives in the Written Modality. A Study of Written French 193
18. 12. Towards a Better Understanding of Biliteracy 205
19. 13. Acquisition of Literacy by Immigrant Children 219
20. Part IV: Writing systems, brain structures and languages: a neurolinguistic view
21. 14. Domain-Specificity and Fractionability of Neuropsychological Processes in Literacy Acquisition 243
22. 15. Reading difficulties among English and German Children. Same Cause — Different Manifestation 259
23. 16. Neural Organisation and Writing Systems 273
24. Bibliographic references 293
25. Analytic index 332