Abstract
Alphabetic writing is a conventional system of representation which allows for the generation of not previously learned combinations of elements into meaningful units. Thus its acquisition must be conceived as going beyond response learning and involving knowledge of the rules of the system, even if only intuitive. In an alphabetic system, the rules that relate speech to writing are based upon a phonemic analysis of the word, and not upon meaning, as in ideographic writing, nor upon syllabic analysis, as in a syllabic system. Alphabetic writing is thus a system which probably requires some degree of awareness of linguistic form.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Carraher, T.N., 1978, A psicoterapia dos problemas cognitivos: um novo objetivo na psicologia clĩnica, Psicol. Clĩn. Psicot., 2: 17.
Carraher, T.N., and Rego, L.L.B., 1981 a, Words, things, and reading, Genet. Epist., 10: 23.
Carraher, T.N., and Rego, L.L.B., 1981 b, O realismo nominal como obstáculo na aprendizagem da leitura, Cad. Pesq., 39: 3.
Ehri, L.C., 1975, Word consciousness in readers and prereaders, J. Educat. Psych., 67: 204.
Ehri, L.C., 1979, Linguistic insight: Threshold of reading acquisition, in: “Reading Research: Advances in Theory and Practice”, T.G. Waller and G.E. Mackinnon, eds., Academic Press, New York.
Elkind, D., Koelgler, R.R. and Go, E., 1964, Studies in perceptual development II. part-whole perception, Child Develop., 35: 81.
Ferreiro, E., 1982, El processo cognitivo de apropiación de la lengua escrita, paper presented at the 10th World Congress of Sociology, August, Mexico City.
Ferreiro, E., and Teberosky, A., 1979, “Los Sistemas de Escritura en el Desarollo del Niño”, Siglo Veintiuno Editoresr Mexico City.
Gleitman, L.R., and Rozin, P., 1973, Teaching reading by use of a syllabary. Read. Res. Quart., 8: 447.
Holden, M.J., 1972, Metalinguistic performance and cognitive development in children from 5 to 7, Dis. Abst. Int., 33: 2791.
Holden, M.H., and MacGinitie, W.H., 1972, Children’s conceptions of word boundaries in speech and print, J. Educat. Psych., 63: 551
Huttenlocher, J., 1964, Children’s language: Word-phrase relationship, Science, 143: 264.
Ianco-Worrall, A.D., 1972, Bilingualism and cognitive development, Child Develop., 43: 1390.
Karpova, S.N., 1955, Osonznanie slovesnogo sostava rechi rebenkom doshkol’nogo vozrasta, from an abstract in English, in: Slobin, D.I., Abstract of Sovietic studies of child language, in: “The Genesis of Language”. 1966, F. Smith and G.A. Miller, ed., MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Liberman, I.Y., 1973, Segmentation of the spoken word and reading acquisition, Bul, of the Orton Soc., 23: 65.
Liberman, I.Y., Shankweiler, D., Fischer, F.W., and Carter, B., 1974, Explicit syllable and phoneme segmentation in the young child, J. Exp, Child Psych., 18: 201.
Lundberg, I., 1978, Aspects of linguistic awareness related to reading in: “The Child’s Conception of Language”, A. Sinclair, R.J. Jarvella and W.J.M. Levelt, eds., Springer, Berlin.
Markmann, E., 1976, Children’s difficulty with word-reference differentiation, Child Develop., 47: 742.
Marsh, G., Friedman, M., Welch, V. and Desberg, P., 1980, The development of strategies in spelling, in: “Cognitive Processes in Spelling”, U. Frith, ed., Academic Press, London.
Mattingly, I.G., 1972, Reading: The linguistic process and linguistic awareness, in: “Language by Ear and by Eye”, J.F. Kavanagh and I.G. Mattingly, eds., The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Papandropoulou, I. and Sinclair, H., 1974, What’s in a word? Experimental study of children’s ideas on grammar, Hum. Develop., 17: 241.
Piaget, J., 1929, “The Child’s Conception of the World”, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.
Piaget, J., 1973, “Estudos Sociológicos”, Forense, Rio de Janeiro.
Rozin, P., Bressman, B. and Taft, M., 1974, Do children understand the basic relationship between speech and writing? The mow-motorcycle test, J. Reading Behav., 6: 327.
Vygotsky, L.S., 1952, Thought and Language”, The M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1983 Plenum Press, New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Carraher, T.N., Rego, L.L.B. (1983). Understanding the Alphabetic System. In: Rogers, D., Sloboda, J.A. (eds) The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3724-9_18
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3724-9_18
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4613-3726-3
Online ISBN: 978-1-4613-3724-9
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive