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Peer reviewedHerrick, Earl M. – Visible Language, 1974
Describes a system of classification to describe alphabets and to show the various degrees of formal similarity which they bear to one another. (TO)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Classification, Linguistics, Written Language
Peer reviewedCrofts, Marjorie – Visible Language, 1971
Descriptors: Alphabets, Literacy Education, Orthographic Symbols, Punctuation
Peer reviewedBrown, R. A. – Visible Language, 1991
Examines societies in which varieties and degrees of literacy are possible or ordinary, such as Japan and Korea. Finds that these societies have separate but functionally interrelated writing systems, used for communicatively disparate purposes, differential mastery of which, consequently, has social and economic repercussions. Finds that…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWatt, W. C. – Visible Language, 1975
Examines two versions of the alphabet to show how psychological evidence indicates that grammar is best which best approximates the system people have in their heads. (RB)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Patterns
