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

This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple
dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how …

This article presents a series of manuscripts that discusses the development of second
language reading. The article discusses language-specific constraints on reading …

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second
Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in …

There is some controversy in the research literature as towhether the development of
reading skills in differentorthographies varies primarily as a function of common …

Different writing systems in the world select different units of spoken language for mapping.
Do these writing system differences influence how first language (L1) literacy experiences …

This study investigated the role of higher–level syntactic and semantic processes and lower–
level word recognition and graphophonic processes in adult English as a second language …

The purpose of this paper is to extend the linguistic relativity hypothesis (ie, the language we
speak affects the way we think) to a script relativity hypothesis (ie, the script in which we read …

During the past decade, unprecedented numbers of children and youth have undergone
schooling in languages other than their native language. Although these numbers are …

This prospective study examined early first-language (L1) predictors of later second-
language (L2) reading (word decoding, comprehension) and spelling skills by conducting a …