Writing Development

1. Studying writing and writing acquisition today: A multidisciplinary view 2. Part I: Writing and literacy acquisition: Links between linguistics and psycholinguistics 3. 1. On the relations between speech and writing (by Olson, David R.) 4. 2. The Unit of Written and Oral Language (by Blanche-Benveniste, Claire) 5. 3. The Word out of (Conceptual) Context (by Ferreiro, Emilia) 6. 4. Presschool Knowledge of Language: What Five year olds Know about Language Structue and Language Use (by Berman, Ruth A.) 7. 5. Explicit Word Segmentation and Writing in Hebrew and Spanish (by Tolchinsky, Liliana) 8. Part II: Writing and reading in time and culture 9. 6. Orality/ Literacy, Languages and Alphabets. Examples from Jewish Cultures (by Sirat, Colette) 10. 7. The Notion of Orthography. A Latin Inheritance (by Desbordes, Francoise) 11. 8. Aspects of a History of Written Language Processing. Examples from the Roman world and the early Middle Ages (by Guenther, Hartmut) 12. 9. Orality in Literate Cultures (by Koch, Peter) 13. 10. The Graphic Space of the School Exercise Books in France in the 19th-20th century (by Hebrard, Jean) 14. Part III: Written language competence in monolingual and bilingual contexts 15. 11. Production and Comprehension of Connectives in the Written Modality. A Study of Written French (by Fayol, Michel) 16. 12. Towards a Better Understanding of Biliteracy (by Luedi, Georges) 17. 13. Acquisition of Literacy by Immigrant Children (by Verhoeven, Ludo) 18. Part IV: Writing systems, brain structures and languages: a neurolinguistic view 19. 14. Domain-Specificity and Fractionability of Neuropsychological Processes in Literacy Acquisition (by Cossu, Giuseppe) 20. 15. Reading difficulties among English and German Children. Same Cause - Different Manifestation (by Wimmer, Heinz) 21. 16. Neural Organisation and Writing Systems (by Butterworth, Brian) 22. Bibliographic references 23. Analytic index