Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. Linguistic theories of graphemics and orthography -- THE GRAPHEME: ITS POSITION AND ITS DEGREE OF AUTONOMY WITH RESPECT TO THE SYSTEM OF THE LANGUAGE / Catach, Nina -- ZUR BESTIMMUNG UND DIFFERENZIERUNG DER PRINZIPIEN DER ORTHOGRAPHIE / ON THE DEFINITION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ORTHOGRAPHY / Nerius, Dieter -- DESCRIPTIVELY AND EXPLANATORILY ADEQUATE MODELS OF ORTHOGRAPHY / Augst, Gerhard -- THE GRAPHIC ELEMENTS OF GERMAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE / Gallmann, Peter -- THE TERM 'GRAPHEME' IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF LINGUISTICS / Kohrt, Manfred -- DIE AUTONOMIE DER GRAPHEMATIK IN HISTORISCHER SICHT / THE AUTONOMY OF GRAPHEMICS FROM HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW / Piirainen, Ilpo Tapani -- II. Empirical linguistic theories of graphemics and orthography -- SCHREIBEN IN GEDANKENSCHNELLE - WEGLEITE DURCH EINE TERRA INCOGNITA DER GRAPHEMATIK / WRITING AS QUICK AS THOUGHT - ITINERARY THROUGH A TERRA INCOGNITA OF GRAPHEMATICS / Jochems, Helmut -- GRAPHEMATI¿ UND PHONEMATI¿ IM ELSASS ODER: DER KAMPF UM EINE ELSÄSSISCHE ORTHOGRAPHIE / ALSATIAN ORTHOGRAPHY / Philipp, Marthe -- ZUR DEKODIERUNG INDIVIDUELLER HANDSCHRIFTEN / ON DECODING HANDWRITTEN TEXTS / Feigs, Wolfgang -- TOWARDS A DIATOPIC APPROACH TO ORTHOGRAPHIC PHENOMENA OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES / Back, Otto -- BREAKING THE SPELLING BARRIER: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PRONUNCIATION FROM ORTHOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS / Russ, Charles V.J. -- ZUR SCHREIBUNG VON FREMDWÖRTERN IM DEUTSCHEN - PROBLEME DER REGELFORMULIERUNG / ON THE SPELLING OF FOREIGN WORDS IN GERMAN PROBLEMS OF RULE FORMULATION / Zabel, Hermann -- III. Psychological problems of graphemics and orthography -- FROM MORPH TO MORPHEME: THE PSYCHOLOGIST GAILY TRIPS WHERE THE LINGUIST HAS TRODDEN / Henderson, Leslie -- PSYCHOLOGISCHE ASPEKTE OES ORTHOGRAPHISCHEN WISSENS: ENTWICKLUNG UND ENTWICKLUNGSSTÖRUNG / PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ORTHOGRAPHIC SKILLS: DEVELOPMENT AND DISORDER / Frith, Uta -- ZU UTA FRITH DREIPHASENMODELL DES LESEN (UND SCHREIBEN) LERNENS. ODER: LASSEN SICH VERSCHIEDENE MODELLE DES SCHRIFTERWERBS AUFEINANDER BEZIEHEN UND WEITERENTWICKELN? / ON UTA FRITH'S THREE PHASE MODEL OF LEARNING TO READ AND TO WRITE. OR: CAN DIFFERENT MODELS OF THE ACQUISITION OF READING AND WRITING BE INTERRELATED AND FURTHER DEVELOPED? / Eichler, Wolfgang -- WAS THE ALPHABET DISCOVERED OR INVENTED? ON THE ALLEGED COMMON PROCESSES IN SPEECH AND WRITING / Günther, Hartmut -- ORTHOGRAPHY AND LEXICAL ACCESS / Scheerer, Eckart -- COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF UPPER AND LOWER CASE FOR INITIAL LETTERS IN GERMAN / Bock, Michael -- PHONOLOGICALLY PLAUSIBLE ERRORS: IMPLICATIONS FOR A MODEL OF THE PHONEME-GRAPHEME CONVERSION MECHANISM IN THE SPELLING PROCESS / Goodman, Roberta Ann / Caramazza, Alfonso -- GRAPHEMICS AND VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION / Coltheart, Max -- ORTHOGRAPHIC SKILLS IN THE HEARING-IMPAIRED / Pattison, Helen -- ENTWICKLUNGS- UND SPRACHPSYCHOLOGISCHE BEGRÜNDUNG DER NOTWENDIGKEIT SPEZIFISCHER METHODEN FÜR DEN ERWERB DER SCHRIFTSPRACHE BEI SPRACHENTWICKLUNGSGESTÖRTEN, LERNBEHINDERTEN UND HÖRGESCHÄDIGTEN KINDERN / ON THE NECESSITY OF SPECIFIC METHODS FOR TEACHING WRITTEN LANGUAGE TO LANGUAGE-DEVELOPMENTAL-DISTURBED, LEARNING-DISABLED AND HEARING-IMPAIRED CHILDREN - ARGUMENTS FROM DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS / Günther, Klaus-B. -- IV. Problems of acquiring orthographic skills -- GRUNDSÄTZE DER VERMITTLUNG UND ERLERNUNG DER ORTHOGRAPHIE IN DER SCHULE DER DDR / PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ORTHOGRAPHY IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC / Riehme, Joachim -- THE ROLE OF THE AFFECTIVE FILTER ON THE LEVEL OF ORTHOGRAPHY / Wiggen, Geirr -- DAS ORTHOGRAPHISCHE PORTRAIT DES SCHÜLERS / THE ORTHOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF THE PUPIL / Borawski, Stanislaw -- THE COGNITION OF SPELLING IN CHILDREN'S MINDS / Balhorn, Heiko -- ON THE ACQUISITION OF THE PHONEMIC PRINCIPLE OF SPELLING FOR LEARNING TO READ AND TO WRITE / Dehn, Mechthild -- WIE LERNEN KINDER LESEN UND SCHREIBEN? - ASPEKTE EINER PÄDAGOGISCHEN FRAGESTELLUNG - / HOW DO CHILDRENS LEARN TO READ AND WRITE? - ASPECTS OF A PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEM - / Fichtner, Bernd -- AUTHORS -- Backmatter