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Beyond one-way streets: The interaction of phonology, morphology, and culture with orthography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Madeleine E. L. Beveridge  and
Thomas H. Bak
Madeleine E. L. Beveridge
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom. m.e.l.beveridge@sms.ed.ac.uk http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/psychology/people/madeleine-beveridge thomas.bak@ed.ac.uk http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/people/thomas-bak
Thomas H. Bak
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom. m.e.l.beveridge@sms.ed.ac.uk http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/psychology/people/madeleine-beveridge thomas.bak@ed.ac.uk http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/people/thomas-bak
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Abstract

Frost's claim that universal models of reading require linguistically diverse data is relevant and justified. We support it with evidence demonstrating the extent of the bias towards some Indo-European languages and alphabetic scripts in scientific literature. However, some of his examples are incorrect, and he neglects the complex interaction of writing system and language structure with history and cultural environment.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 280 - 281
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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