1st Edition

Orthographies and Reading Perspectives from Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, and Linguistics

Edited By Leslie Henderson Copyright 1984
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1984, the previous two decades had seen a rebirth of psychological interest in the process of reading. Attention had increasingly been directed to aspects of fluent reading, such as eye-movement control or contextual effects within the sentence, to a great extent progress had depended on refinement of the experimental analysis of factors that govern the processing of... Read more

Introduction.  1. Writing Systems and Reading Processes L. Henderson  2. Lexical Access in Japanese J. Morton and S. Sasanuma  3. Can Surface Dyslexia Occur in Japanese? S. Sasanuma  4. Arbitrariness and Double Articulation in Writing F. Coulmas  5. Writing Systems and Reading Disorders M. Coltheart  6. The Serbo-Croatian Orthography Constrains the Reader to a Phonologically Analytic Strategy M.T. Turvey, L.B. Feldman and G. Lukatela  7. Reading Hebrew: How Necessary is the Graphemic Representation of Vowels? D. Navon and J. Shimron  8. The Representation of Internal Word Structure in English P.T. Smith, T. Meredith, H.M. Pattison and C. Sterling  9. Wholisitic Reading of Alphabetic Print: Evidence from the FDM and the FBI D. Besner, E. Davelaar, D. Alcott and P. Parry.  Author Index.  Subject Index.  Language Index.

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Leslie Henderson