Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth,
we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our …

In this article, we discuss the relevance of electrophysiological data to the enterprise of
analyzing and understanding the reading process. Specifically, we detail how the event …

This article introduces EsPal: a Web-accessible repository containing a comprehensive set
of properties of Spanish words. EsPal is based on an extensible set of data sources …

This article describes a Windows program that enables users to obtain a broad range of
statistics concerning the properties of word and nonword stimuli in Spanish, including word …

Three experiments were conducted to compare the development of orthographic
representations in children learning to read English, French, or Spanish. Nonsense words …

Abstract Effects of orthographic neighborhood in visual word recognition in Spanish were
examined in 5 paradigms: progressive demasking, standard lexical decision, lexical …

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 …

Background: Frequency of occurrence is a strong predictor of lexical processing across
modalities and experimental paradigms. However, frequency is part of a large set of …

It has been reported that in visual lexical decision response latencies to simplex nouns are
shorter when these nouns have large morphological families, ie, when they appear as …

There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the
characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born today master any …