Documents concerning the second workshop on "Understanding early literacy in a developmental and cross-linguistic approach", held in Wassenaar, on 7-9 Oct 1993: programme, list of participants.
Papers: "The developmental paradox: how much and how little five-year-olds know about language structure and language use" by Ruth A. Berman; "Some remarks about the acquisition of written language as a conceptual object" by Emilia Ferreiro; "Word-searching strategies in young children inside and outside the classroom" by Laurence Rieben; "L’encodage du texte écrit. Normes et déviances dans les processus référentiels et dans le marquage de la cohésion" by Marie-José Reichler-Béguelin; "Ponctuation et connecteurs fonctionnement et acquisition de quelques marqueurs de la structure textuelle" by Michael Fayol; "On the relations between speech and writing" by David R. Olson; "Phonological knowledge and writing: a developmental study in two writing systems" by L. Tolchinsky Landsmann, A. Teberosky and J. Matas; "How writing contributes to develop a mental model of speech" by J. Morais; "Neural organisation and writing systems" by Brian Butterworth; "Brain, culture and literacy! By Luciano Mecacci.

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