DEVELOPMENTAL ORTHOGRAPHY -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction Uta Frith -- English Vowel Spellings -- Introduction -- 1. The prior framework -- 2. A hierarchical framework -- 3. Orthographic constituent structure -- 4. Conclusion -- A Formal Approach to Error Taxonomy -- Introduction -- 1. Error taxonomy -- 2. Structural errors -- 3. Rank hierarchy -- 4. Final remarks -- Processing Strategies in Bilingual Spellers -- Introduction -- 1. Processing strategies -- 1.1 Letter-naming -- 1.2 Overgeneralization -- 1.3 Transfer -- 2. Summary and conclusion -- Note -- Bilingual Intralinguistic Orthographic Interference -- Introduction -- 1. The group experiment -- 2. The error framework -- 3. Some conclusions -- Note -- The Complexity Hypothesis and Graphemic Ambiguity -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Review of the literature -- 1.2 Purpose -- 2. Consonant doubling in German and English -- 2.1 German consonant doubling -- 2.2 English consonant doubling -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Subjects -- 3.2 Design -- 3.3 Materials -- 3.4 Procedure -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Hypothesis 1 -- 4.2 Hypothesis 2 -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Hypothesis 1 -- 5.2 Hypothesis 2 -- 6. Conclusion -- APPENDIX I -- APPENDIX II -- The Complexity Hypothesis and Morphemic Spelling -- Introduction -- 1. Received developmental patterns -- 2. Learning morphemic spelling -- 3. Hierarchies of accuracy vs. hierarchies of acquisition -- 4. Error patterns in morphemic spelling -- 5. Summary and prospects -- Note -- APPENDIX: Instruction on the pronunciation and spelling of the regular past tense -- Psycholinguistic determinants of orthography acquisition -- Introduction -- 1. Method -- 2. Purpose -- 3. Procedure -- 4. Results -- 1. Summary of data in terms of sound, grade and school type -- 2. Investigation of each hypothesis separately.

3. A general model -- 4. Prototypical errors -- 4.1 Hauptschule -- 4.2 Realschule -- 4.3 Gymnasium -- 5. Conclusion -- Note -- APPENDIX I. Tables -- APPENDIX II -- Developmental Morphographemics -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Purpose -- 2. The Experiment -- 3. Discussion -- 3.1 The Familiarity Hypothesis -- 3.2 The Part of Speech Hypothesis -- 3.3 The Morphology Hypothesis -- 3.4 The Morphographemic Rule Hypothesis -- 4. Conclusion -- APPENDIX I. Phonology-free Morphographemic Alternations -- APPENDIX II. Developmental Morphographemics (N = 13) -- Orthographic Complexity and Orthography Acquisition -- Introduction -- 1. Orthographic complexity -- 2. Orthographic complexity and orthography of inflection -- 3. Acquisition of the orthography of inflection and contraction -- 4. Acquisitional stages -- 5. Individual variation -- 6. Developmental orthography -- 7. Conclusion -- APPENDIX I: Dictation Exercise -- APPENDIX II: Test Words -- A Psycholinguistic Model of the Bilingual Speller -- Introduction -- 1. The experiment -- 2. The results -- 3. Discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- APPENDIX I. False friends: Words to dictation -- APPENDIX II. False friends: Test words -- APPENDIX III. False friends: Control Words -- APPENDIX IV. The Results -- Developmental Orthography -- Introduction -- 1. L1-English orthography -- 2. Learnability: Subsets vs. complexity -- 3. Bilingual developmental orthography -- 3.1 Transfer: Interlinguistic and iniralinguistic -- 3.2 Graphemic and phonemic ambiguity -- 3.3 Short and long vowels -- 3.4 Orthography of inflection and contraction -- 3.5 Vowel spelling vs. consonant doubling vs. morphemic spelling -- 3.6 Developmental morphographemics -- 4. Conclusion -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- References.