Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

The science of reading has made genuine progress in understanding reading and the
teaching of reading, but is the science of reading just the science of reading English …

Most current theories of reading and dyslexia derive from a relatively narrow empirical base:
research on English and a handful of other European alphabets. Furthermore, the two …

A writing system is a graphic code, ie, a system of standardized pairings between symbols
and meanings in which symbols take the form of images that can endure. The visual …

Cross–writing system research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience has yielded
important findings regarding how a writing system's structure can influence the cognitive …

Cattle brands (ownership marks left on animals) are subject to forces influencing other
graphic codes: the copying of constituent parts, pressure for distinctiveness and pressure for …

Writing is an eclectic phenomenon whose many facets are studied by the young
interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics. Linguistically, writing is a system of graphic marks …

We review cognitive-linguistic approaches to conveying meaning, sound, and orthographic
information across scripts in order to highlight the impact of variability in written and spoken …

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of
grapholinguistics, treating questions concerning both the structure and use of writing …