UNDERSTANDING THE ALPHABETIC SYSTEM

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.

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