Morphology is a major organising principle of English and other alphabetic languages, but
has been largely neglected in theories of reading acquisition. In this article, I develop the …

The last 40 years have witnessed a growing interest in the mechanisms underlying the
visual identification of complex words. A large amount of experimental data has been …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

Visual word identification requires readers to code the identity and order of the letters in a
word and match this code against previously learned codes. Current models of this lexical …

Much research suggests that words comprising more than one morpheme are represented
in a “decomposed” manner in the visual word recognition system. In the research presented …

 Les Neurones de la lecture s' ouvre sur une énigme: comment notre cerveau de primate
apprend-il à lire? Comment cette invention culturelle, trop récente pour avoir influencé notre …

Recent theories of morphological processing have been dominated by the notion that
morphologically complex words are decomposed into their constituents on the basis of their …

Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words. A vigorous ongoing debate
surrounds the question of how such internal structure is best accounted for: by means of …

In this introduction to the special issue, I will first briefly summarise past research on
orthographic processing, describing some of the central areas of empirical investigation and …

Many studies have suggested that a word's orthographic form must be processed before its
meaning becomes available. Some interpret the (null) finding of equal facilitation after …