There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

A defining feature of language lies in its capacity to represent meaning across oral and
written forms. Morphemes, the smallest units of meaning in a language, are the fundamental …

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 scientific study of reading has taught us much about the beginnings of reading in
childhood, with clear evidence that the gateway to reading opens when children are able to …

Current evidence suggests that morphologically complex words (eg, farmer) are
automatically segmented into their constituent morphemes (farm+ er) during reading, a …

This chapter describes a model that accounts for various phenomena related to
morphological processing in skilled reading and reading acquisition. The model implements …

Reading is a cultural invention and a learned skill that is acquired only through years of
instruction and practice. Understanding the functional mechanisms that underpin this …

The process by which morphologically complex words are recognized and stored is a matter
of ongoing debate. A large body of evidence indicates that complex words are automatically …

The morphological structure of complex words impacts how they are processed during
visual word recognition. This impact varies over the course of reading acquisition and for …

One key finding in support of the hypothesis that written words are automatically parsed into
component morphemes independently of the true morphological structure of the stimuli, so …