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What does accessing a morphemic script tell us about reading and reading disorders in an alphabetic script?

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This paper discusses the commonalities and differences in the processing mechanism of analytic reading in the English orthography and the Chinese orthography. Readers of English generally use the phonological processing route, although the morphological aspect should also be emphasized. Readers of Chinese would need to take advantage of the morphemic nature of the script, although speech recoding is also used. The interplay of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic processing is emphasized. Reading disorders may implicate certain processing routes, but may spare other components.

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This work was assisted in part by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Leave Fellowship 451-84-2280 for the 1984–1985 academic year.

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Leong, C.K. What does accessing a morphemic script tell us about reading and reading disorders in an alphabetic script?. Annals of Dyslexia 36, 82–102 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02648023

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