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1 online resource (xii, 335 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I: Framing the questions -- II: Social context of literacy -- III: Testing Consequences: Developmental Paradigms -- Testing Consequences: Functional Paradigms -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
What are the intrinsic differences between the literate and the illiterate mind? The Vai, a small West African group, developed their own system of writing that flourishes today, althought no body of written literature exists and about half of those literate in Vai have never had formal schooling. Given this situation, Scribner and Cole were able to test mor than 1,000 subjects over a four-year period to measure the mental advantage of literates over nonliterates. "An ambitious and important bookambitious in scope and its continual reevaluation of aims and methods ... and important for putting heretofore unexamined presumptions regarding the gognitive effects of literacy to empirical test."Language and Society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-329) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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Language and culture -- Liberia
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Literacy -- Liberia
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Writing.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Vai language.
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Vai (African people) -- Education
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Vai (African people) -- Social conditions
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Vai (African people)
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Writing
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Psycholinguistics
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writing (processes)
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psycholinguistics.
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Vai (African people)
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Language and culture
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Literacy
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Psycholinguistics
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Vai language
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Writing
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Liberia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cole, Michael, 1938- author.
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| ISBN |
9780674721142 |
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0674721144 |
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9780674433014 |
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0674433017 |
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