The development of reading depends on phonological awareness across all languages so
far studied. Languages vary in the consistency with which phonology is represented in …

This article shows how language processing is intimately tuned to input frequency.
Examples are given of frequency effects in the processing of phonology, phonotactics …

A total of 104 six‐year‐old children belonging to 4 groups (English monolinguals, Chinese‐
English bilinguals, French‐English bilinguals, Spanish‐English bilinguals) were compared …

Several previous studies have suggested that basic decoding skills may develop less
effectively in English than in some other European orthographies. The origins of this effect in …

Alphabetic orthographies differ in the transparency of their letter-sound map**s, with
English orthography being less transparent than other alphabetic scripts. The outlier status …

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

The properties of the 2,570 Chinese characters explicitly taught in Chinese elementary
schools were systematically investigated, including types of characters, visual complexity …

We examined reading and phonological processing abilities in English and German
dyslexic children, each compared with two control groups matched for reading level (8 …

Bilingual children's language and literacy is stronger in some domains than others.
Reanalysis of data from a broad-scale study of monolingual English and bilingual Spanish …

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 …