Reviews words and letter counts and discusses comprehensive count of initial and terminal letters and bigrams compiled based on the Kucera and Francis corpus of English words. Count included frequency of occurrence and versatility. Shows how such counts can be used to describe "Englishness" and made predictions as to information load of…

The Pre-Kindergarten Inventory of Demonstrated Skills (Pre-KIDS) is designed to be used before the school year begins so that teachers and staff can obtain information about incoming kindergarten students. This information is intended to give teachers insight about what skills a student may or may not have before entering their classrooms. This…

The ability to recognize letter patterns within words as a single unit is important for fluent reading. This skill is based on previously established memory representations of common letter patterns. The ability to form these memory representations may be impaired in some poor readers, particularly readers with naming speed deficits (NSD). This…

Purpose: This study examined the independent and combined effects of two sources of linguistic knowledge (alphabet cues and semantic predictability) on the intelligibility of speakers with dysarthria. The study also examined the extent to which each source of knowledge accounted for variability in intelligibility gains. Method: Eight speakers with…

This study explores the use of the interactive whiteboards in teaching the non-Latin based orthographies of Hindi, Pashto, Dari, Persian (Farsi), and Hebrew. All these languages use non-roman scripts, and except for Hindi, they are cursive. Thus, letters within words are connected and for beginners the script may look quite complicated,…

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…

A practical orthography is presented for Kuuk Thaayorre, which is spoken by over 300 Aborigines in Australia. The phonemes in Thaayorre and the way they are symbolized in normal writing practice are presented. Frequent occurrence of six conventional digraphs for some Thaayorre consonants has given rise to complementary orthography as an initial…

This bibliography cites periodicals, books, sections of books, and articles having to do with the initial teaching alphabet. Entries include American and European publications, most published since 1965. (CLK)

A great deal of disagreement exists as to whether the writing systems of the Brahmi family of scripts from Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent and the Hangul script of Korea should be classified as alphabets or syllabaries. Both have in common a mixture of syllabic and alphabetic characteristics that has spawned vigorous disagreement among…

Eighty sighted male Ss participated in a study to determine the effect of the size of the braille cell on the rate of learning the names for braille symbols of letters of the alphabet (A-J and K-T). Study size (standard or large braille), test size (standard or large braille) and item set (A-J or K-T) were manipulated in a study-test procedure…

Approximately 7,500 entries are included in this Nengone-English dictionary. (Its counterpart, the English-Nengone dictionary, is to be published separately in the same series.) Each entry appears with its index number, part of speech, definition, and an example of its usage. The orthography used throughout is that of the London Mission Society…

This 25-page description of Choctaw morphology or word structure is based on the spelling of words provided by "A Choctaw Orthography," written by the same author for the Choctaw Bilingual Education Program of Southeastern State College, Durant, Oklahoma. (See AL 002 770 for the companion volume.) In this work, the author defines some frequently…

Presents the results of a questionnaire survey sent in Spring 1974 to 321 libraries with substantial holdings of works in dissimilar scripts. (Author/PF)

Outlines three criteria that alphabet books should follow to effectively aid childrens' learning. Shows that Caldecott-winner "Alphabatics" (Suse MacDonald) violates these standards. (ARH)

Three studies were conducted to investigate changes in global procedures (memory for a whole word), component procedures (memory for a letter in a word), and serial procedures (memory for a letter sequence in a word) as a function of learning to read. (PCB)