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Brunswick, Nicola, Ed.; McDougall, Sine, Ed.; de Mornay Davies, Paul, Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies. While most research has been conducted in English, this text presents cross-language comparisons to provide insights into universal aspects of reading development and developmental dyslexia in alphabetic and non-alphabetic…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading, Dyslexia, Spelling
Eckler, Ross – 1996
From showing readers the longest words in common usage (22 letters--counterrevolutionaries, deinstitutionalization), to providing readers with a list of words in which all 5 vowels must appear in alphabetical order (abstemious, facetious), to discovering the name in an American phone book where the most letters of the alphabet are used without…
Descriptors: Educational Games, English, Letters (Alphabet), Linguistics
Hoffer, Bates, Ed. – 1996
Forty-five papers on linguistic theory and language research from the annual conference address these topics: aspects of discourse analysis; agreement languages; grammatical relations; syntax; phonology; grammar; contrastive linguistics; second language learning; syntax; quotations; topic management; aphasia; interpersonal communication; laughter;…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Aphasia, Bilingualism, Black Dialects
Melby, Alan K., Ed. – 1997
Fifty-nine papers on language research and linguistic theory from the annual forum address these topics: correctness in language; aspects of neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics; historical linguistics and language evolution; linguistic philosophy; aspects of syntax; aspects of discourse analysis; lexicon and semantics; language contact and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Alzheimers Disease, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Powell, Mava Jo, Ed. – 1995
Fifty-three papers on linguistic theory and language research, including a number of prize-winning essays, address these topics: aspects of discourse analysis; bilingualism; Chinese modal verbs; early bilingual speech; linguistic metatheory; music and accent discrepancy; diphthongs; hiatus; vowel patterns; suprasegmentals; neologisms; aspects of…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingualism, Child Language, Computational Linguistics
Embleton, Sheila, Ed. – 1998
Forty-one papers on language research and linguistic theory from the annual conference address these topics: linguistic philosophy; aspects of phonetics and phonology; topics in syntax; aspect; topics in semantics; topics in discourse analysis; sociolinguistics and language contact; historical linguistics; metatheory; and interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Canada Natives, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics