Letter knowledge and word identification are key skills for reading and spelling. Letter knowledge facilitates the application of sublexical letter-sound mappings to decode words. With reading experience, word identification becomes a key lexical skill to support decoding. In transparent orthographies, however, letter knowledge might be an…

This issue of "Exploring," is devoted primarily to examination of alphabets and the languages they represent. Major articles include: "Shrinking the Alphabet" (Pat Murphy), a comparison of alphabet composition for different languages; "The Puzzle of Linear B" (Paul Doherty), a history of archaeologists' deciphering of an early form of written…

The bibliography, a compilation of earlier works, gives basic bibliographic information (author/editor, title, source, publication date) for 3,908 books, articles, essays, and dissertations on Philippine linguistics dating back to the seventeenth century. Citations are listed alphabetically. An index cross-references the citations by subject area…