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Peer reviewedDe Kerckhove, Derrick – Visible Language, 1986
Hypothesizes that writing systems affect cognitive strategies at a deeper level of human information-processing than is generally accepted in present day psychology. Discusses why almost all varieties of alphabets, syllabaries, and consonantal systems have been written to the left while vocalic systems have been written to the right. (JD)
Descriptors: Alphabetizing Skills, Alphabets, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
