THE LINGUISTICS OF LITERACY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Written language and spoken language compared -- Part II: Orthographic systems -- Part III: The psychology of orthography -- Part IV: Consequences of literacy -- REFERENCES -- PART I: WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE COMPARED -- Variation in the intonation and punctuationof different adverbial clause typesin spoken and written English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adverbial clauses in conversation -- 3. Adverbial clauses in freshman writing -- 4. Related findings -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Informationflowin speaking and writing -- Speaking -- Writing -- REFERENCES -- How is conversation like literary discourse? The role of imagery and details in creating involvement -- The role of details in involvement -- The function of details in conversation -- Details in conversational and literary discourse -- Other genres -- The centrality of scenes: neurological evidence -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Modern American poetry and modern American speech -- Introduction -- Relevant research -- The texts -- Analysis of narratives -- Analysis of conversations -- REFERENCES -- PART II: ORTHOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS -- Segmentalismin linguistics The alphabetic basis of phonological theory -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The syllabic origin of writing and the segmental origin of the alphabet -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Modern grammatogeny -- Units -- Ancient grammatogeny -- Segments -- Grammatology -- Prospects -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ADDENDUM -- Phonemic segmentation as epiphenomenonEvidence from the history of alphabetic writing -- 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. The status of phonemic segmentation -- 3. Alphabetic writing -- 3.1 Typology of writing systems -- 3.1.1 Terminology.

3.1.2 Distribution of writing systems -- 3.2 The Greek adaptation of the Canaanite system -- 4. Implications -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Aspiration and Cherokee orthographies -- 1. The phonology of aspiration -- 2. The Cherokee syllabary -- 3. Understanding the organization of the syllabary -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Interpreting Emai orthographic strategies -- Introduction -- Spelling issues -- Background -- Strategies for spelling Emai -- Discussion -- Summary -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Linguistic aspects of musical and mathematical notation -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART III: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ORTHOGRAPHY -- Orthographic aspects of linguistic competence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On orthographic vs. phonological knowledge -- 3. On the representation of phonological and orthographic knowledge in the lexicon -- 4. On the implicit "written language bias" in linguistics -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The costs and benefits of phonological analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. In evaluating the cost of proposed phonologies, simplicity isn't enough -- 2.1 Simplicity is only part of the evaluation of grammars -- 2.2 Testing must follow any cost analysis -- 3. The epistemology of phonology -- 3.1 Recognizing derivational relationships between words -- 3.2 Recognizing the generality of sound patterns -- 3.3 "You can lead a horse to water, but..." -- 3.4 What is the payoff from constructing SPE-phonology -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Morphological relationships revealed through the repetition priming task -- Introduction -- Inflections and derivations compared -- Do alternations in spelling and pronunciation obscure morphological relationships? -- Are less familiar words analyzed more readily with respect to morphemic structure than more familiar words? -- Does semantic similarity enhance the recognition of morphological relationships?.

Discussion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Orthography and phonologyThe psychological reality of orthographic depth -- Orthography, phonology and the mental lexicon -- Orthographic depth: Evidence from the shallow Serbo-Croatian orthography -- Evidence from the deeper Hebrew orthography -- Evidence from cross-language studies -- The importance of orthographic depth: critique and conclusions -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- A model of lexical storageEvidence from second language learners' orthographic errors -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: CONSEQUENCES OF LITERACY -- Writing is a technology that restructures thought -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Language index -- Author index -- Subject index.