Cognitive precursors of reading: A cross-linguistic perspective

K Landerl, A Castles, R Parrila - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we survey current evidence on cognitive precursors of reading in different
orthographies by reviewing studies with a cross-linguistic research design. Graphic symbol …

[HTML][HTML] The multiple-level framework of developmental dyslexia: the long trace from a neurodevelopmental deficit to an impaired cultural technique

T Lachmann, K Bergström - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2023 - Springer
Developmental dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by an unexpected
impairment in literacy acquisition leading to specific poor academic achievement and …

Reading/writing direction as a source of directional bias in spatial cognition: Possible mechanisms and scope

N Faghihi, J Vaid - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2023 - Springer
Becoming literate has been argued to have a range of social, economic and psychological
effects. Less examined is the extent to which repercussions of becoming literate may vary as …

Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa

E van Bergen, SA Hart, A Latvala… - Developmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Children who like to read and write tend to be better at it. This association is typically
interpreted as enjoyment impacting engagement in literacy activities, which boosts literacy …

Character and word reading in Chinese: Why and how they should be considered uniquely vis-à-vis literacy development

DJ Pan, X Yang, KFH Lui, JCM Lo, C McBride… - Contemporary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Two correlational studies from the same data set demonstrated the distinctiveness of
character and word reading for Chinese reading development among 337 Hong Kong …

The impact of character complexity on chinese literacy: a generalized additive modeling approach

S Hemelstrand, BWL Wong, C McBride… - Scientific Studies of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose We examined the effect of character complexity on early Chinese literacy (word
reading and writing). We also investigated whether cognitive skills (phonological …

Phonological and morphological literacy skills in English and Chinese: A cross‐linguistic neuroimaging comparison of Chinese–English bilingual and monolingual …

K Zhang, X Sun, CL Yu, RL Eggleston… - Human Brain …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of literacy development, children learn to recognize word sounds and
meanings in print. Yet, they do so differently across alphabetic and character‐based …

Early literacy acquisition in logographic orthographies: Evidence from Chinese and Japanese

T Inoue, M Zheng, KFH Lui, C McBride… - Early Childhood Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
We examined the cognitive-linguistic predictors of early literacy development and the extent
to which they were similar or different across two logographic orthographies (Chinese and …

Linguistic constraints on the cross-linguistic variations in L2 word recognition

X Li, K Koda - Reading and Writing, 2022 - Springer
This study investigated how experience with a first language (L1) writing system affects the
development of the second language (L2) word recognition subskills and how L2 linguistic …

Contributions of metalinguistic awareness and lexical inference to reading comprehension in upper‐elementary Chinese students

X Cheng, H Zhang - Journal of Research in Reading, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The present study aimed to examine and compare the relative contributions of
three facets of metalinguistic awareness (phonological awareness, orthographic awareness …