Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

A strong phonological theory of reading is proposed and discussed. The first claim of this
article is that current debates on word recognition are often based on different axioms …

Until recently, the study of writing systems was something of a Cinderella subject within the
discipline of lin guistics. For a long time there was only one standard monograph, IJ Gelb's …

This book is intended to give you a broad overview of Applied Linguistics. It will introduce
you to important areas in the field, and familiarize you with the key issues in each of those …

Two hypotheses about the association between the equivalent words in a bilingual's two
languages are considered. The word association hypothesis proposes that a direct …

We investigated the psychological reality of the concept of orthographical depth and its
influence on visual word recognition by examining naming performance in Hebrew, English …

Provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on the science of reading, revised and
updated throughout The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study …

Orthographic depth has been studied intensively as one of the sources of cross-linguistic
differences in reading, and yet there has been little detailed analysis of what is meant by …

Publisher Summary This chapter reveals that reading English and reading Chinese have
more in common than has been appreciated when it comes to phonological processes. The …

In reading, lexical form–form relations may be more reliable than form–meaning relations.
Accordingly, phonological forms (activated by graphic forms) become actual constituents …