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Explaining word recognition, reading, the universe, and beyond: A modest proposal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Jonathan Grainger  and
Thomas Hannagan
Jonathan Grainger
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille University, 13331 Marseille, France. jonathan.grainger@univ-amu.fr thom.hannagan@gmail.com www.univ-provence.fr/lpc
Thomas Hannagan
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille University, 13331 Marseille, France. jonathan.grainger@univ-amu.fr thom.hannagan@gmail.com www.univ-provence.fr/lpc
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Abstract

Frost proposes a new agenda for reading research, whereby cross-linguistic experiments would uncover linguistic universals to be integrated within a universal theory of reading. We reveal the dangers of following such a call, and demonstrate the superiority of the very approach that Frost condemns.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 288 - 289
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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