Orthography, Phonology, Morphology, And Meaning

ORTHOGRAPHY, PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND MEANING ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGY 94 Editors: G. E. STELMACH P. A. VROON NORTH-HOLLAND AMSTERDAM LONDON NEW YORK TOKYO ORTHOGRAPHY, PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND MEANING Edited by Ram FROST Department of Psychology Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel Leonard KATZ Department of Psychology University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, USA 1992 NORTH-HOLLAND AMSTERDAM LONDON NEW YORK TOKYO NORTH-HOLLAND ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS B.V. Sara Burgerhartstraat 25 P.O. BOX211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands ISBN: 0 444 891404 O1992 ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS B.V. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Copyright & Permissions Department, P.O. Box 521, 1000 AM Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the U.S.A. - This publication has been registered with the Copyright Clearance Center Inc. (CCC), Salem, Massachusetts. Information can be obtained from the CCC about conditions under which photocopies of parts of this publication may be made in the U.S.A. All other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the U.S.A., should be referred to the copyright owner, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., unless otherwise specified. No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. pp. 413-434: Copyright not transferred This book is printed on acid-free paper. Transferred to digital printing 2006 V Contents Acknowhdgments ......................................................................................................................... Orthography, Phonology, Morphology, and Meaning: An Overview Leonard Katz and Ram Frost ............................................................................. vii 1 PART 1 Language and Orthography Linguistic Awareness and Orthographic Form Ignatius G. Mattingly ................................................................................... 11 Reading Consonants and Guessing Vowels: Visual Word Recognition in Hebrew Orthography Ram Frost and Shlomo Bentin .....................................................