R. Malatesha Joshi (Editor) - Handbook of Orthography and Literacy

HANDBOOK OF ORTHOGRAPHY AND LITERACY

Edited by

R. Malatesha Joshi

Texas A & M University

P. G. Aaron

Indiana State University

First published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Handbook of orthography and literacy / edited by R. Malatesha Joshi,

P. G. Aaron.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8058-4652-2 (hbk)ISBN-13: 978-0-805-85467-1 (pbk)

1. Language acquisition. 2. Literacy. 3. Language and languagesOrthography and spelling.

I. Joshi, R. Malatesha. II. Aaron, P. G.

P118.H349 2005

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P. G. Aaron
Dept. of Educational and School Psychology
College of Education
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA

Salim Abu-Rabia
Faculty of Education
University of Haifa
Mount Carmel
Haifa 31905, Israel

Athanasios Aidinis
Department of Psychology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece

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Department of English
Doshisha University
Imadegawa-Karasume
Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8580 Japan

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Department of Psychology
Lancaster University
Fylde College
Lancaster LAI 4YF, United Kingdom

Elena Andonova
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
Department of Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Street
Sofia 1618, Bulgaria

Dorit Aram
The Constantiner School of Education
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

Mikko Aro
Department of Psychology
University of Jyvskyl
Niilo Mki Institute
Jyvskyl, Finland

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Department of Experimental Psychology
School of Health and Social Sciences
Middlesex University EN3 4SF
United Kingdom

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Radboud University Nijmegen
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Special Education
PO Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen
The Netherlands

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Neuhaus Education Center
Houston, Texas, USA

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Department of Experimental Psychology
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Oxford OX3 0BP
United Kingdom

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Dept. of Psychology
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Departamento de Psicologia
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Av. Antonio Carlos 6627
31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

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Department of Learning and Teaching
Massey University
Private Bag 11 222
Palmerston North, New Zealand

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Department of Psychology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, PT, Hong Kong

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Department of Psychology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, PT, Hong Kong

Valria Cspe
Research Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1068 Budapest
Szoni utca 83-85, Hungary

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School of Behavioural Science
Department of Psychology
The University of Melbourne
3010, Australia

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Psychology Department
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 4J1, Canada

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Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota Duluth
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Duluth, MN 55812-3010, USA

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Program in Educational Psychology
CUNY Graduate School
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New York, NY 10016, USA

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Department of General and Applied Linguistics
University of Copenhagen
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DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark

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LAPSCO-CNRS (UMR 6024) & Universit de Clermont-Ferrand
34, Avenue Carnot
63037 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex (France)

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La Guardia Community College, New York, NY, USA

Martine A. R. Gijsel
Radboud University Nijmegen
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Special Education
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The Netherlands

Usha Goswami
Professor of Education
University of Cambridge
Faculty of Education
Shaftesbury Road
Cambridge, CB2 2BX
United Kingdom

I. P. Gowramma (Rajni Chengappa)
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Mysore, Karnataka, India

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Radboud University Nijmegen
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Special Education
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