Brahmi Scripts Orthographic Units and Reading Acquisition

Abstract

examines the linguistic organization underlying the writing system known as Brahmi / ancient Hindu scholars designed Brahmi to represent syllabo-alphabetic units, which can be interpreted in terms of the current phonological terms 'mora' (short, 1-beat syllable) and 'extra-metrical element' / in the different Indian scripts, which are based on Brahmi, moras and extra-metrical elements function as orthographic units that provide intraword segmentation / discusses the relevance of the syllabo-alphabetic writing system to reading acquisition and presents some data on Gujurati-speaking [7–9 yr olds] from Baroda, India (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)