ABSTRACT
The relationships between oral language and written language, in terms of similarities and differences, have been the matter of concern of philosophers, linguists, educators, psycholinguists, and other disciplines. The differences are evident at the pragmatic, syntactic, and lexical levels. But this chapter deals with another problem. Any writing system (historically developed) is an analytical representation of a given oral language. Among the multiple oral units that can be identified in oral discourses, what are the ones that are marked in writing? How do children develop awareness of those units?
