<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Anybody out there aware of any recent work, especially anything with ethnographic elements, that deals with the effects on literacy of word-completion features in mobile phones? (They appear as "T9" options on my own mobile phone here in Sweden, not sure how they are labeled elsewhere.)<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-RJS</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; 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border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Richard J Senghas (Professor of Anthropology, Sonoma State U, California)</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Visiting Researcher, </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Institutionen för n</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">ordiska språk </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Stockholms universitet</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><A href="mailto:Richard.Senghas@nordiska.su.se">Richard.Senghas@nordiska.su.se</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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