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An even more universal model of reading: Various effects of orthography on dyslexias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Naama Friedmann  and
Aviah Gvion
Naama Friedmann
Affiliation:
Language and Brain Lab, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. naamafr@post.tau.ac.il http://www.tau.ac.il/~naamafr/ Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Aviah Gvion
Affiliation:
Language and Brain Lab, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. naamafr@post.tau.ac.il http://www.tau.ac.il/~naamafr/ Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders, Ono Academic College, Kiryat Ono 55000, Israel. aviah.g@ono.ac.il Reuth Medical Center, Tel Aviv 67728, Israel
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Abstract

The properties of a specific orthography dictate the way people read it. We bring considerations from dyslexia to suggest that the claim can be extended further. First, the effect of orthographic neighborhood density can be extended beyond letter-position encoding and beyond the orthographic lexicon. Second, Hebrew and Arabic differ with respect to letter forms, and hence, in letter-position encoding.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 285 - 286
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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