What do reading times tell us about the effect of orthographic regularity? Evidence from English and Italian readers by Кьяра Валерия Маринелли, Мариалуиза Мартелли, Эмилиано Пицциканнелла, Пьерлуиджи Дзокколотти

“…First, the characteristics of the English orthography (possibly emphasized by the teaching method used) foster a global, lexical, approach to recognizing words. …”
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Old English front vowel orthography in the 7th and 8th centuries by Maresia, AE

“…</p> <p>Through the analysis of early Old English orthography, this study was also able to differentiate between related but separate Old English protothemes with important implications for our understanding of the Old English onomasticon.…”

RULES DETERMINING THE OCCURRENCE OF THE ENGLISH by DINHA TOBIYA GORGIS

“…A frequency count was made of all the occurrences of /ô: / in Daniel Jones' English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) and it was found that the distribution of this sound is governed by a set of rules that can be deduced from the English orthography. 2446 cases conformed to the rule hypothesised, i,e., V +r +C, and were put into five rules, whereas 194 instances did not conform to the hypothesis and were treated as exceptions or nonsequential.…”
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Implicit statistical learning of patterns in orthography to phonology mappings in Chinese EFL learners by Ling, K

“…This study attempted to provide deeper insight into how adult EFL learners with a fundamentally different language system, that is, Mandarin Chinese, learn the English orthography-to-phonology patterns under brief incidental exposure. …”

Action video games improve reading abilities and visual-to-auditory attentional shifting in English-speaking children with dyslexia by Franceschini, S, Trevisan, P, Ronconi, L, Bertoni, S, Colmar, S, Double, K, Facoetti, A, Gori, S

“…However, the cognitive mechanism underlying this improvement and the extent to which the benefits of AVG training would generalize to deep English orthography, remain two critical questions. During reading acquisition, children have to integrate written letters with speech sounds, rapidly shifting their attention from visual to auditory modality. …”

The Effect of L1 Persian on the Acquisition of English L2 Orthographic System on the Shared Grounds by Ali Akbar Jabbari, Ahmad Reza Eslamizade, Hamide Behroueian

“…However, it was observed that both elementary and advanced groups had difficulty learning English orthography system, showing almost no positive effect from L1. …”
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Oral language comprehension of young adults with low-level reading comprehension by Irit Bar-Kochva, Irit Bar-Kochva, Réka Vágvölgyi, Josef Schrader, Josef Schrader, Josef Schrader, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Hans-Christoph Nuerk

“…This pattern of relationship differs from previous findings in studies of adults struggling to read the opaque English orthography. Whether orthographic transparency explains this discrepancy should be further tested in cross-orthography studies with larger samples of adults with low literacy skills.…”
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Cerebral mechanisms for different second language writing systems. by Koyama, MS, Stein, J, Stoodley, C, Hansen, P

“…The increased activation in the Japanese-L1/English-L2 group likely reflects the increased cognitive load associated with L2 English reading, possibly because L1 readers of Kana, which has an extremely regular orthography, may need to adjust to the greater phonological demands of the irregular L2 English orthography. In contrast, during Kana reading, the L2 readers of Japanese Kana (English-L1/Japanese-L2) exhibited stronger activation in the lingual gyrus in both the left and right hemispheres compared to the L1 readers of Kana (Japaese-L1/English-L2). …”

The cognitive bases of learning to read and spell in Greek: evidence from a longitudinal study. by Nikolopoulos, D, Goulandris, N, Hulme, C, Snowling, M

“…Despite the differences in the degree of transparency between the Greek and English orthographies, phoneme awareness predicts variations in learning to read and spell in both languages.…”