early literacy develops, especially with respect to indigenous languages of South Africa. He argues that there is no single, simple path to reading literacy but that literacy acquisition is interdependent with orthography and the linguistic, morpho-syntactic and phonological properties of a language. He is a member of the editorial board of Literator and was Chairperson of the Linguistics Society of Southern Africa (2014–2018). He was co-chair of the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Society (2018-2020). References External links Linguists from South Africa Psycholinguists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Rhodes University alumni University of Tromsø alumni Leiden University alumni Academic staff of Rhodes University