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Orthography, Vision, and Phonemic Awareness

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Our interest in orthography is, we like to think, in the Whorfian tradition of studies of the ways in which our conceptions and uses of language determine the cognitive and perceptual constructs by means of which we know the universe around us.

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Scholes, R.J. (1995). Orthography, Vision, and Phonemic Awareness. In: Taylor, I., Olson, D.R. (eds) Scripts and Literacy. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1162-1_23

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