Four experiments examined the memory of Korean subjects for words written in the two writing systems used in Korea, one alphabetic, the other ideographic. The impetus for the investigation was the apparently different encoding properties of the two scripts, with alphabets seeming to encode sound and ideograms, meaning. (Editor)

A study of eighty Canadian kindergarten children showed that discrimination of similar letters was more difficult than distinctive letter discrimination, irrespective of training format or mode of testing. (MJB)

Investigated the development of perceptual differentiation of writing in 45 preschool children. Subjects were asked to label graphic displays varying in features shared with Roman letters and with letter strings. (Author/JMB)

This paper describes how problems of input and display in developing a computer-based book catalog including nonroman scripts for the New York Public Library (NYPL) were solved. An innovative approach to filing nonroman entries in a catalog is presented. (Author/KP)

Results of three experiments are reported, which indicate that images of simple two-dimensional patterns are formed sequentially. The subjects included 48 undergraduates and 16 members of the Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) community. A new objective methodology indicates that images of complex letters require more time to generate. (TJH)

In this art activity elementary students are asked to design their own alphabet, not just by streamlining the letters they regularly use, but by inventing new letters. (RM)

"Alpha-Pets" are the focal point of an integrated, multidisciplinary curriculum. Each pet is featured for a week in a vocabulary-rich story and introduces related activities beginning with the featured letter, such as the four food groups during Freddie Fish's week or universe during Ulysses Unicorn's week. (MT)

Outlines the structure of a printer driven program that converts Romanized texts, composed with the aid of standard word-processing software, into codes that enable a dot matrix printer to produce high-quality printouts in various non-Roman scripts. (Author/SED)

In a whole-language kindergarten, children learn language skills in a social context. Suggestions on how to develop activities that focus on a different letter of the alphabet each week are offered. These activities tie together all areas of the curriculum. (DF)

Compares two studies (41 middle-class preschool and kindergarten children ages three to six in Argentina versus a similar group in Tucson) which show how children in two parts of the world, speaking different languages, used the same kind of hypothesis testing to make sense of print. (CT)

Reports a study in which the letters F, G, and K were presented in normal and backward versions, in varying angular orientations, in left and right visual fields. (Author/NH)

Two experiments are an attempt to provide a description of three commonly observed phenomena of recognition behavior for alphabet characters in terms of the mathematics of correlation. (Author/KM)

Purpose of this study was to ascertain the efficiency of the first letter mnemonic as a memorization strategy. (Authors)