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Watt, 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

Brown, 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

Robson, Ernest M. – Visible Language, 1975
Describes an alphabetic process for cuing readers to speak the three dimensions of sound: fundamental frequency, duration, and intensity. (RB)
Descriptors: English, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Language Research

Visible Language, 1979
Describes research projects and experiments in graphic design conducted at a number of colleges and universities. (GT)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Design, Educational Games, Experiments