Showing papers by "Marc M. Sebrechts published in 1982"
TL;DR: In this paper, Tzeng and Hung present experimental studies of reading in Chinese and English, and conclude that speech recoding occurs even when using a logographic writing system, and suggest that one role of the speech code is to facilitate the reading of difficult materials.
Abstract: The other section focuses on reading processes in the skilled reader. Dominic Massaro addresses the issue of visual information processing in reading. The papers that follow, by Ovid Tzeng and Daisy Hung, and Georgije Lukatela and Michael Turvey, are fascinating. Tzeng and Hung present experimental studies of reading in Chinese and English, and conclude that speech recoding occurs even when using a logographic writing system. They suggest that one role of the speech code is to facilitate the reading of difficult materials. Lukatela and Turvey report on experiments conducted with Serbo-Croatian, a language which uses two alphabets Roman and Cyrillic both of which are taught to Yugoslavian children. The authors investigated the processing of both alphabets in adult readers, and found that the alphabet that was learned first was the more salient of the two. The final section deals with reading and spelling failure. Frank Vellutino argues in favor of a perceptual inefficiency, rather than a perceptual deficiency, model in dyslexics. Renate Valtin comments on inconsistencies in research on dyslexia. Uta and Christopher Frith explore some relationships between reading and spelling in children who are good readers but poor spellers, an interesting subject that has been little studied. The collection of papers presented in this book brings together important issues relevant to studying the ways in which reading and orthography interact. This is an area that deserves much more attention from investigators. For those who are interested, many questions raised by the conference participants remain to be answered.
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