1. Do orthographic and phonological peculiarities of alphabetically written languages influence the course of literacy acquisition?

   • José Morais

   Introduction Pages: 1 - 7

2. Acquisition of reading and written spelling in a transparent orthography: Two non parallel processes?

   • Giuseppe Cossu
   • Maria Gugliotta
   • John C. Marshall

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 22

3. The development of analogical reading in Spanish

   • Núria Sebastian-Gallés
   • Ana Parreño Vacchiano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 38

4. Reading and spelling acquisition in French first graders: Longitudinal evidence

   • Liliane Sprenger-charolles
   • Séverine Casalis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 63

5. Reading and spelling acquisition in two different teaching methods: A test of the independence hypothesis

   • Jacqueline Leybaert
   • Alain Content

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 88

6. Spelling development in deaf and hearing children: Evidence for use of morpho-phonological regularities in French

   • Jacqueline Leybaert
   • Jésus Alegria

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 109

7. Reading and spelling development in Brazilian Portuguese

   • Ângela Maria Vieira Pinheiro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 138

8. Reading, syntactic, and working memory skills of bilingual Portuguese-English Canadian children

   • Helena A. Da Fontoura
   • Linda S. Siegel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 153