The Linguistics of Literacy

Editors

Pamela A. Downing

Susan D. Lima

Michael Noonan

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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 cluster around three of the major themes that developed during the conference: the linguistic differences between written and spoken genres, the relationship between orthographic systems and phonology, and the psychology of orthography. The volume concludes with a solicited paper by Walter J. Ong which draws together the various strands considered in the other sections of the book and addresses the broader question of the social and psychological consequences of literacy.

[Typological Studies in Language, 21] 1992. xx, 334 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.21

Table of Contents

Contributors | p. vii

Introduction

Pamela A. Downing and Susan D. Lima | p. ix

I. Written Language and poken Language Compared

Variation in the intonation and punctuation of different adverbial clause types in spoken and written English

Cecilia E. Ford | p. 3

Information flow in speaking and writing

Wallace Chafe | p. 17

How is conversation like literary discourse? The role of imagery and details in creating involvement

Deborah Tannen | p. 31

Modern American poetry and modern American speech

Eleanor Berry | p. 47

II. Orthographic systems

Segmentalism in linguisitics: The alphabetic basis of phonological theory

Mark Aronoff | p. 71

The syllabic origin of writing and the segmental origin of the alphabet

Peter T. Daniels | p. 83

Phonemic segmentation as ephiphenomenon: Evidence from the history of alphabetic writing

Alice Faber | p. 111

Aspiration and Cherokee orthographies

Janine Scancarelli | p. 135

Interpreting Emai orthograpgic strategies

Ronald P. Schaefer | p. 153

Linguistic aspects of musical and mathematical notation

James D. McCawley | p. 169

III. The Psychology of Orthography

Orthographic aspects of linguistic competence

Bruce L. Derwing | p. 193

The costs and benefits of phonological analysis

John J. Ohala | p. 211

Morphological relationship revealed through the repetition priming task

Laurie Beth Feldman | p. 239

Orthography and phonology: The psychological reality of orthographic depth

Ram Frost | p. 255

A model of lexical storage: Evidence from second language learners’ orthographic errors

J Ron Cowan | p. 275

IV. Consequences of literacy

Writing is a technology that restructures thought

Walter J. Ong | p. 293

Language Index | p. 321

Author Index | p. 323

Subject Index | p. 331

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