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Universals of reading: Developmental evidence for linguistic plausibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Usha Goswami
Usha Goswami*
Affiliation:
Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom. ucg10@cam.ac.uk http://www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk/
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Abstract

Children's reading and spelling errors show that orthographic learning involves complex interactions with phonology, morphology, and meaning throughout development. Even young children seek to make their visual word recognition strategies linguistically coherent. Orthographic knowledge gained through spelling affects reading, and vice versa. Developmental data support Frost's claim that letter-coding flexibility reflects the optimization of encoding resources in a highly developed system.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 287 - 288
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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