Reading of alphabetic writing systems, such as English, has been extensively studied and
most theories and models of reading are based on findings from these studies. This practice …

Chinese developmental dyslexia (DD) research provides important insights into the
language-universal and language-specific mechanisms underlying dyslexia. In this article …

Abstract Zipf's Law of Abbreviation–the idea that more frequent symbols in a code are
simpler than less frequent ones–has been shown to hold at the level of words in many …

We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate reading-writing relations. Beyond the overall
relation, we systematically investigated moderation of the relation as a function of linguistic …

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 …

A writing system is a graphic code, ie, a system of standardized pairings between symbols
and meanings in which symbols take the form of images that can endure. The visual …

We report a new multidimensional measure of visual complexity (GraphCom) that captures
variability in the complexity of graphs within and across writing systems. We applied the …

Writing is an eclectic phenomenon whose many facets are studied by the young
interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics. Linguistically, writing is a system of graphic marks …

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 …

The processes underlying word reading are shaped by statistical properties of the writing
system. According to some theoretical perspectives, reading acquisition should be …