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Orthographic Systems and Developmental Dyslexia: A Reformulation of the Syndrome

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Reading and Writing Disorders in Different Orthographic Systems

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Orthography can be defined as the graphemic patterns of a written language and their mapping onto phonology, morphology, and meaning (Henderson, 1984, p. 1). The preceding Chapters in this book have examined a variety of orthographies that bear different degrees of relationship to phonology. Some orthographies have consistent, almost one-to-one, correspondence with their spoken linguistic counterparts. Because letters in the words written in these orthographies convey almost all the information needed to pronounce the words correctly, these orthographies are considered as shallow or transparent. Some orthographies have a much less straight-forward relationship with phonology. Words written in these orthographic systems cannot be readily pronounced by sounding out the constituent letters of the word but require morphemic and semantic knowledge that are not inherent in the word itself. These orthographies are, therefore, considered as opaque or deep. Other orthographies fall in between these extremes.

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Aaron, P.G. (1989). Orthographic Systems and Developmental Dyslexia: A Reformulation of the Syndrome. In: Aaron, P.G., Joshi, R.M. (eds) Reading and Writing Disorders in Different Orthographic Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1041-6_22

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