The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet [PDF]
Do handwriting skills transfer when a child writes in two different scripts, such as the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets? Are our measures of handwriting skills intrinsically bound to one alphabet or will a child who faces handwriting difficulties in one ...
Thibault Asselborn +2 more
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Improving validity of the trail making test with alphabet support [PDF]
ObjectiveThe Trail Making Test (TMT) is commonly used worldwide to evaluate cognitive decline and car driving ability. However, it has received critique for its dependence on the Latin alphabet and thus, the risk of misclassifying some participants ...
Anders Wallin +2 more
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Revealing a word superiority effect using a unique variant of the Latin alphabet: the evidence from Turkish [PDF]
When visual stimuli are presented briefly, words are perceived better than nonwords. It is widely accepted that this word superiority effect reflects the efficiency with which words are perceived.
Timothy R. Jordan, Aleynanur Kalan
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Adaptations of the Latin alphabet to write fragmentary languages
The aim of this paper is to offer an overview of the use of the Latin alphabet to write the so-called fragmentary languages of Italy and Western Europe during Antiquity.
Simón Cornago, Ignacio
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Benefiting structural anatomy of Latin writing in deriving synonym design in Arabic writing [PDF]
Arabic-calligraphy faces many contemporary and emerging problems.one of these is the presence of incoherence between forms of Arabic and Latin-writings in advertising-messages that combine them because the weak relationship between anatomical-structure ...
Nesrin Ezzat
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The Problem of the Latin Alphabet in Kazakhstan and Turkey
The transition to the latin alphabet is a decisive and courageous step for an even closer rapprochement of the kazakh society with the turkic world. Most of our sister countries from the turkic world use the latin alphabet. This is a visual indicator of the convenience of the latin for sounds that are inherent only in the turkic languages. In the world,
N. Abdurakhmanov +2 more
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Reflections of Debates Upon Alphabet (Letter) to Journal of Sebilürreşad
In Otoman State which had used Arabic alphabet until a certain period the issue of writing in Latin alphabet was gained currency thanks to the students who had been to Europe and the embassadors who had come from Europe in 18th and 19th centuries.
Mehmet Soğukömeroğulları
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The role of the written script in shaping mirror-image discrimination: Evidence from illiterate, Tamil literate, and Tamil-Latin-alphabet bi-literate adults [PDF]
Learning a script with mirrored graphs (e.g., d ≠ b) requires overcoming the evolutionary-old perceptual tendency to process mirror images as equivalent.
Tania Fernandes +2 more
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The present paper features the publication of an unedited manuscript by the Soviet linguist E.D. Polivanov, submitted in November 1927 by its author not for publication but just as a contribution to the discussion around the so-called Abkhaz Analytical ...
Алексей Викторович Андронов +2 more
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Do pictures influence memory and metamemory in Chinese vocabulary learning? Evidence from Russian and Colombian learners. [PDF]
Despite the increasing interest in learning non-alphabetical languages such as Chinese, research about its learning process for alphabet users is scarce.
Beatriz Martín-Luengo +3 more
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