Handbook of literacy in Akshara orthography. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride, editors.
• Editors: Joshi, R. Malatesha; McBride, Catherine
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Introduction; Introduction: Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography; References; Indic Scripts: History, Typology, Study; Introduction; Decipherment and Study of the Earliest Indic Scripts; Materials Available for the Decipherment; Brahmi; Kharoṣṭhi; Decipherment; Brahmi; Kharoṣṭhi; Theories of Origin; Kharoṣṭhi; Brahmi; Semitic Scripts; Indigenous Origin; Historico-Geographical Dispersal of the Indic Scripts; Silk Road; Kharoṣṭhi; Brahmi; North Indic; Tibetan; South Indic; Southeast Asia; Ethiopic; Typology of Indic Scripts; Terminology Nature of the Aramaic Abjad with Matres LectionisInfluence of Pāṇinian Grammar on the Invention of Kharoṣṭhi; Refinement in Brahmi; Alterations in Descendant Scripts; Additional Letters: Tamil, Tocharian, Khotanese, Etc.; Loss of Conjuncts: Tamil; Loss of Null Vowel: Ethiopic; Separation of Syllables: Tibetan; Enlargement of Vowel Markers to Letters: hPags pa; Notation of Tone: Gurmukhi, Burmese, Thai, Lao; Reuse of Consonant Distinctions for Vowel Quality: Khmer; Loss of Consonant Distinctions: Thai; Addition of Honorific Forms: Javanese; Rationalization of Vowel Notation: Gurmukhi Script Reform: MalayalamLoss of Abugida Nature: Lao; References; What Is an Akshara?; Origins; Features of Brahmi Writing Systems; What an Akshara Is and Is Not; Cultural Context; Scripts in Contact - Urdu and Hindi; Final Remarks; Conclusion; References; Part II: Akshara Orthographies: A Brief Description; Orthographic Knowledge, Reading and Spelling Development in Tamil: The First Three Years; Introduction; Tamil Orthography; Diachronic and Synchronic Features; The Symbol Set and a Vocabulary to Describe it; Surface Features of Vowel Diacritics; Opaque Features; Tamil Phonology The Unaspirated-Voiceless and the Aspirated-Voiced PatternSpoken Varieties; Tamil Morphology; Nouns; Verbs; Tamil Literacy Instruction; Examining the Variety in Tamil Instruction; School 1: Activity Based Learning; School 2: Textbook Led Learning; School 3: Blackboard Led Learning; Orthographic Knowledge in Tamil; Single Word Reading; Spelling; Writing Routines; End Note; Appendix: Tamil Linguistic Terms with the Tamil Lexicon Notation (Madras Notation) and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA); References Literacy Acquisition in the Malayalam Orthography: Cognitive/Linguistic Influences within a Multilingual ContextIntroduction; Malayalam; Malayalam Orthography; Orthographical and Phonological Inconsistencies in Malayalam; Phonological Awareness and Reading Acquisition in Malayalam; Relationships Between Orthography and Phonology in Malayalam Literacy Acquisition; Word, Sentence and Vocabulary Formation in Malayalam; Impact of Agglutination and Sandhi on Automatic Word Recognition; Spoken Versus Written Malayalam and Its Implication for Reading
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 411; Language and languages -- Orthography and spelling; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030059774; 3030059774
• Related ISBNs: 9783030059767; 3030059766
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2019).
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