Written Language & Literacy 12:1

2009. 163 pp.

Table of contents

Articles

Developing a depersonalized stance through linguistic means in typologically
different languages: Written expository discourse
Harriet Jisa and Liliana Tolchinsky 1–25

Developmental trajectories in mastery of paragraphing: Towards a model of
development
Debra Myhill 26–51

Literacy predictors and early reading and spelling skills as a factor of
orthography: Cross-linguistic evidence
Elena Zaretsky, Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic, Cynthia Core and Mirjana Lencek 52–81

Similarities and differences of Luxembourgish and Romanophone 12 year olds’
spelling strategies in German and in French
Sylvie Bodé, Joyce Serres and Sonja Ugen 82–96

Can secondary pupils train decoding skills? An empirical study on phonological
reading errors
Christina Noack 97–115

Letter and grapheme perception in English and Dutch
Patrick Bolger, Susanne R. Borgwaldt and Emőke Jakab 116–139

Visual Crowding and the tone orthography of African languages
David Roberts 140–155

Book review

Peter Unseth (ed.), The sociolinguistics of script choice
Reviewed by Bridget Goodman 157–158