The effect of orthographic systems on the developing reading system: Typological and computational analyses.

Orthographic systems vary dramatically in the extent to which they encode a language's phonological and lexico-semantic structure. Studies of effects orthographic transparency suggest that such variation is likely have major implications for how reading system operates. However, studies been unable examine isolation contributory effect on because covarying linguistic or sociocultural factors. We first investigated properties languages using range world's (alphabetic, alphasyllabic, consonantal, syllabic, logographic), found that, once geographical proximity taken into account, do not relate system. then explored processing by training connectionist implementation triangle model while controlling semantic show effective as universal reading, able replicate key behavioral neuroscientific results. The also generates new predictions deriving from an explicit description realized defines consequences processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).