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Are there universals of reading? We don't believe so

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Max Coltheart  and
Stephen Crain
Max Coltheart
Affiliation:
Centre for Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. max.coltheart@mq.edu.au http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/~max/ stephen.crain@mq.edu.au http://www.ccd.edu.au/people/profile.html?memberID=55
Stephen Crain
Affiliation:
Centre for Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. max.coltheart@mq.edu.au http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/~max/ stephen.crain@mq.edu.au http://www.ccd.edu.au/people/profile.html?memberID=55
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Abstract

There are universals of language; but is it also true, as the target article claims, that there are universals of reading? We believe there are no such universals, and invite others to refute our claim by providing a list of some universals of reading. If there are no universals of reading, there cannot be a universal model of reading.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 282 - 283
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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