Most current theories of reading and dyslexia derive from a relatively narrow empirical base:
research on English and a handful of other European alphabets. Furthermore, the two …

The grapheme appears to be a central concept of grapholinguistics. However, there is no
consensus on how it should be defined. Some use the concept of grapheme in their work but …

Phonological awareness has been found to be an important skill underpinning reading
development in several alphabetic languages. However, the development of phonological …

1 ARECLS, 2013, Vol.10, 107-129. WHAT CAUSES SPELLING ERRORS OF THAI EFL
STUDENTS? WORALAK BANCHA Abstract The present study aim Page 1 1 ARECLS, 2013 …

Orthographic systems vary dramatically in the extent to which they encode a language's
phonological and lexico-semantic structure. Studies of the effects of orthographic …

This study examined how orthography-specific demands affect decoding development in 10–
14-year-old multilingual students learning to read Kannada and English in India. Given that …

This study investigated the contribution of decoding and language comprehension sub-skills
to Kannada and English biliteracy development over three years in multilingual students in …

Studies have revealed that consonants and vowels serve different roles during linguistic
processing. Masked transposed-letter priming effects (ie, faster word-identification times for …

A contemporary question is whether the script we read in affects our cognition, termed the
script relativity hypothesis (Pae in: Script effects as the hidden drive of the mind, cognition …

This chapter focuses on symbol architecture and inventory size, topics that are important for
understanding the cognitive bases of learning to read. It also focuses on acquisition and …