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The paper describes four writing systems and a few example scripts under each system. Under the heading “Research Common to Different Scripts,” the paper then discusses research on phonetic coding, eye movements in reading, and cortical processing, in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts. Under the heading “Research Unique to Specific Scripts,” it discusses research on word recognition in English orthography, in Japanese Kanji and Kana, and in Korean Hangul. Linguistic, cognitive, and cortical processing seems to be similar for people reading sentences and text in different scripts; processing seems to be dissimilar for people recognizing individual symbols in different scripts.
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This paper is based on the keynote address and the seminar given at the 12th annual symposium of the Deseret Language and Linguistic Society, February, 1986, Provo, Utah; published in the proceedings of the symposium and reproduced by permission.
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Taylor, I. Scripts and reading research. Interchange 18, 78–88 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01807061
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01807061