The aim of this study is to explore the predictive value vocabulary breadth and depth together with classical variables phonological awareness, naming speed alphabetic knowledge in explaining progress initial learning reading writing a sample 162 students 3rd year kindergarten. Early detection risks read essential be able intervene proactively if signs dyslexia are found. skills that predict su...

The long-lasting effect of reading experience in Hebrew and English on phonemic segmentation was examined in skilled readers. Hebrew and English orthographies differ in the way they represent phonological information. Whereas each phoneme in English is represented hy a discrete letter, in unpointed Hebrew most ofthe vowel information is not conveyed by the print, and, therefore, a letter often ...

The oral spelling process for logographic languages such as Chinese is intrinsically different from alphabetic languages. In Chinese only a subset of orthographic components are pronounceable and their phonological identities (i.e., component names) do not always correspond to the sound of the whole characters. We show that such phonological identities can nevertheless be selectively preserved ...

Parts of the left ventral visual pathway are engaged selectively during the perception of words, letter strings, and even single letters. While studies have shown overlap between activations for letters and characters across writing systems, they adopted group analyses with very limited spatial resolution, or used words and letter strings that have been shown to activate different regions from ...

We study the class of quasi-alphabetic relations, i.e., tree transformations de ned by tree bimorphisms (';L; ) with '; quasi-alphabetic tree homomorphisms and L a regular tree language. We present a canonical representation of these relations; as an immediate consequence, we get the closure under union. Also, we show that they are not closed under intersection and complement, and do not preser...

We used the activation likelihood estimation (ALE) method to quantitatively synthesize data from 19 published brain mapping studies of phonological processing in reading, six with Chinese and 13 with alphabetic languages. It demonstrated high concordance of cortical activity across multiple studies in each written language system as well as significant differences of activation likelihood betwe...

Holistic processing has been associated with perceptual expertise in different domains involving faces, cars, fingerprints, musical notes, English words, etc. Curiously Chinese characters are regarded as an exception, as indicated by reduced holistic processing found for experts with the Chinese writing system as compared with novices. We revisit the issue and examine one type of holistic proce...

Writing technology is a central issue for Human Language Technology (HLT) both in terms of theory and actual implementation. Two issues that neatly divide theory and practical implementation are what and how to represent. What to represent takes us into the realm of linguistic analysis. Once the question of what to represent is answered reasonably well, the question of how to represent has to b...