Vivian Cook

Vivian Cook is emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University. His current research interests are second language acquisition and the English writing system. He was a founder of the European Second Language Association and co-founder and co-editor of the journal Writing System Research.

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Linguistics Handmade [long_description] A review by linguist Vivian Cook of the recent paper by Elena Pagliarini et al., “Children’s First Handwriting Productions Show a Rhythmic Structure,” Nature Scientific Reports 7, no. 5,516 (2017), considering their claims that certain characteristics of handwriting are innate to humans.
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letter More Galilean Challenges
In response to “The Galilean Challenge”
[short_description] The abilities of literacy and bilingualism are not attributes of geniuses alone but part of the normal condition. Idealizing them away from the language in the mind is an unrealistic simplification.

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