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Scripts in Contact: Transmission of the First Alphabets
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Abstract. The alphabet is a type of notation which breaks language into small units, attempting to represent its phonological and/or phonetic repertoire. Given that writing is a way of thinking, based on a cognitive activity that requires mental procedures, the aim of this paper is to propose the architecture of the spelling process, described in cognitive and psycholinguistic studies, as a model for the transmission of the alphabet(s).
For this purpose, the reflection is focused on the so-called first alphabets in writing systems’ history, i.e., Greek, Anatolian, Italic, and Iberian alphabets, introducing the new linguistic and archeological approaches which allow an earlier date and a less decisive role for the Greeks in the alphabets’ introduction.
Ancient literatures’ evidence about the teaching of writing and reading are found to match with the current results of cognitive studies about the dynamics of oral reproduction, word recognition, and written reproduction. The peculiarities of Asia minor alphabets, which are still unsolved, will be addressed and framed within the spelling process model.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-rode


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Sveva Elti di Rodeano (2020), “Scripts in Contact: Transmission of the First Alphabets,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 4, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 223–239.


@INPROCEEDINGS{gla4-rode,
   AUTHOR = {Sveva Elti di Rodeano},
   EDITOR = {Haralambous, Yannis},
   TITLE = {{Scripts in Contact: Transmission of the First Alphabets}},
   BOOKTITLE = {{Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020}},
   SERIES = {{Grapholinguistics and Its Applications}},
   VOLUME = {4},
   PUBLISHER = {Fluxus Editions},
   ADDRESS = {Brest},
   YEAR = {2020},
   PAGES = {223--239},
   DOI = {https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-rode},
}