We review cognitive-linguistic approaches to conveying meaning, sound, and orthographic
information across scripts in order to highlight the impact of variability in written and spoken …

Cross–writing system research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience has yielded
important findings regarding how a writing system's structure can influence the cognitive …

There is strong evidence that word reading and spelling ability in English is founded on
three core skills, namely knowledge of letters of the alphabet, awareness of phonemes in …

Skilled reading reflects an accumulation of experience with written language. Written
language is typically viewed as an expression of spoken language, and this perspective has …

In this article, we provide a cross-linguistic perspective on the universals and particulars in
learning to read across seventeen different orthographies. Starting from the assumption that …

Research into reading development and reading disabilities has been dominated by
phonologically guided theories for several decades. In this volume, the authors of 11 …

Reading has universal properties that can be seen across the world's writing systems. The
most important one is the universal language constraint: All writing systems represent …

In this chapter, the authors highlight advances in the study of skilled reading, from word
identification to comprehension, emphasizing language and writing system influences, the …

With contributions from leading international researchers, Contemporary Perspectives on
Reading and Spelling offers a critique of current thinking on the research literature into …

Spelling–sound transparency varies across orthographies. This aspect was found to have
implications for the strategy of reading, but whether reading of different orthographies also …