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S1: The Native Script Effect Amalia E. Gnanadesikan  Download (258.67 kB) Abstract. This paper claims that the script that a person learns first qualifies as a native script S1) in a manner analogous to a native language (L1). The cognitive pre-eminence of the S1 results in a native script effect, which accounts for various findings in the synchronic study of second-language acquisition and in the diachronic study of script adoption. The native script effect is argued to be an important factor in the historical preference shown for the adoption of pre-existing scripts over the invention of new ones. The claim that S1 is like L1 runs counter to the assumptions of linguists of the structuralist and generative traditions, who are agreed in the belief that writing is not language. Language is considered to be cognitively special, the result of a special grammar-learning module. However, writing may be more like primary language than previously believed, and the specialness of language may in fact cause other systems (such as writing) to be analyzed grammatically and entrained into language, with the native script effect being one notable result. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-gnan References References in BIB How to cite How to cite in BIB Abadzi, Helen (1994). What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy: Is There Hope? Washington DC: World Bank. Alessandrini, Jean (1979). “Une nouvelle classification typographique: Codex 1980.” In: Communication et langage 43, pp. 35–56. Aronoff, Mark (1992). “Segmentalism in Linguistics: The Alphabetic Basis of Phonological Theory.” In: The Linguistics of Literacy. Ed. by P. Downing, S.D. Lima, and M. Noonan. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 71–82. Baines, John (2004). “The Earliest Egyptian Writing: Development, Context, Purpose.” In: The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process. Ed. by Stephen D. 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Gnanadesikan (2020), “S1: The Native Script Effect,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 4, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 103–123. @INPROCEEDINGS{gla4-gnan, AUTHOR = {Amalia E. Gnanadesikan}, EDITOR = {Haralambous, Yannis}, TITLE = {{S\down{1}: The Native Script Effect}}, BOOKTITLE = {{Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020}}, SERIES = {{Grapholinguistics and Its Applications}}, VOLUME = {4}, PUBLISHER = {Fluxus Editions}, ADDRESS = {Brest}, YEAR = {2020}, PAGES = {103--123}, DOI = {https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-gnan}, }