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iy yy Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17: 943-946, 2004. Contents Volume 17 (2004) Volume 17 Nos. 1-2 February 2004 Theme: Reading and Writing in Semi-Syllabic Scripts Guest Editors: Jyotsna Vaid and Prakash Padakannaya Jyotsna Vaid and Prakash Padakannaya / Introduction Susan J. Rickard Liow and Lay Choo Lee / Metalinguistic awareness and semi-syllabic scripts: Children’s spelling errors in Malay Miriam Taouk and Max Coltheart / The cognitive processes involved in learning to read in Arabic Duggirala Vasanta / Processing phonological information in a semi- syllabic script: Development data from Telugu Ashum Gupta / Reading difficulties of Hindi-speaking children with developmental dyslexia 79 Prathiba Karanth, Anu Mahtew and Priya Kurien / Orthography and reading speed: Data from native readers of Kannada 101-120 Shyamala Chengappa, Sapna Bhat and Prakash Padakannya Reading and writing skills in multilingual /m ultilitreate aphasics: Two case studies Greg B. Simpson and Hyewon Kang / Syllable processing in alphabetic Korean Jessun Kim and Chris Davis / Characteristics of poor readers of Korean hangul: Auditory, visual and phonological processing Jessun Kim, Marcus Taft and Chris Davis / Orthographic- phonological links in the lexicon: When lexical and sublexical information conflict Announcement Instructions for authors 944 VOLUME OF CONTENTS Volume 17 No. 3 April 2004 Fernando Cuetos, Asuncion Monsalve, Alejandro Pinto and Javier Rodriguez-Ferreiro/ Predictor variables of written picture naming in the deaf Rachel Schiff and Dorit Ravid / Vowel representation in written Hebrew: -Phonological, orthographic and morphological con- texts Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz / Storybook writing in first grade Robert Savage / Motor skills, automaticity and developmental dyslexia: A review of the research literature Announcement Volume 17 No. 4 June 2004 Rhona S. Johnston and Joyce E. Watson / Accelerating the development of reading, spelling and phonemic awareness skills in initial readers Richard L. Sparks /O rthographic awareness, phonemic awareness, syntactic processing, and working memory skill in hyperlexic children Dorit Aram and Iris Levin / The role of maternal mediation of writing to kindergartners in promoting literacy in school: A longitudinal perspective Ranka_ Bijeljac-Babic, Victor Millogo, Fernand Farioli and Jonathan Grainger / A developmental investigation of word length effects in reading using a new on-line word identification paradigm Volume 17 No. 5 July 2004 Sara Rosenblum, Patrice L. Weiss and Shula Parush / Handwriting evaluation for developmental dysgraphia: Process versus product Elisabeth Arnbak / When are poor reading skills a threat to educational achievement? Donald Shankweiler and Anne E. Fowler / Questions people ask about the role of phonological processes in learning to read VOLUME OF CONTENTS Martine A.R. Gijsel, Wim H.J. van Bon and Anna M.T. Bosman Assessing reading skills by means of paper-and-pencil lexical decision: Issues of reliability, repetition, and word-pseudoword ratio Volume 17 No. 6 August 2004 Virginia M. Holmes and Naomi Malone / Adult spelling strategies Joanne Egan and Linda Pring / The processing of inflectional morphology: A comparison of children with and without dyslexia Paul Miller / The importance of vowel diacritics for reading in Hebrew: What can be learned from readers with prelingual deafness? Claire M. Fletcher-Flinn, Donald Shankweiler and Stephen J. Frost Coordination of reading and spelling in early literacy development: An examination of the discrepancy hypothesis Volume 17 Nos. 7-8 November 2004 Special Issue: Regular and Impaired Reading in Semitic Languages Guest Editor: Zvia Breznitz Zvia Breznitz / Introduction Salim Abu-Rabia and Haitham Taha / Reading and spelling error analysis of native Arabic dyslexic readers Zohar Eviatar and Raphiq Ibrahim / Morphological and orthographic affects on hemispheric processing of nonwords: A cross- linguistic comparison Zvia Breznitz, Revital Oren and Shelley Shaul / Brain activity of regular and dyslexic readers while reading Hebrew as compared to English sentences Tami Katzir, Shelly Shaul, Zvia Breznitz and Maryanne Wolf/ The universal and the unique in dyslexia: A cross-linguistic investigation of reading and reading fluency in Hebrew-and English- speaking children with reading disorders David L. Share and Carmit Shalev / Self-teaching in normal and disabled readers 946 VOLUME OF CONTENTS Mark Leikin and Orit Assayag-Bouskila / Expression of syntactic complexity in sentence comprehension: A comparison between dyslexic and regular readers Paul Miller /T he word decoding strategies of Hebrew readers with and without hearing impairments: Some insight from an associative learning task Volume 17 No. 9 December 2004 Rolande Parel / The impact of lexical inferencing strategies on second language reading proficiency Annukka Lehtonen and Peter Bryant / Length awareness predicts spelling skills in Finnish Ronald W. Stringer, Maggie E. Toplak and Keith E. Stanovich Differential relationships between RAN performance, behaviour ratings, and executive function measures: Searching for a double dissociation Holger Juul and Carsten Elbro / The links between grammar and spelling: A cognitive hurdle in deep orthographies? Volume Contents Author Index