The World's Writing Systems

By C. F. Hockett, P. Daniels, W. Bright. 1997

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On the Anglocentricities of current reading research and practice: the perils of overreliance on an "outlier" orthography. (2008, background): “This enviable state of affairs probably also applies to the study of the worlds writing systems (Daniels & Bright, 1996), although many extinct scripts still remain to be deciphered.”
Writing System Variation and Its Consequences for Reading and Dyslexia (2018, background): “Unlike English, however, most phoneme-based orthographies have highly regular letter–sound correspondences (see Daniels & Bright, 1996), with relatively few, if any, “exception” words.”
What Teachers Need to Know About Language (2002, background): “It is helpful to consider the wide array of writing systems that exist in the world's languages (see Daniels & Bright, 1996).”
Literacy ability and phonological processing skills amongst dyslexic and non-dyslexic speakers of Arabic (2006, methodology): “However, the term abjad has also been used to describe this script (see Daniels & Bright, 1996 ), given the incomplete representation of vowels by letter symbols; i.e., short vowels are represented by diacritical markers above letters.”