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As the chapters in this volume indicate, researchers have shown an increasing interest in the relation between orthography, visual information processing, and reading comprehension. These issues are important, for although the study of reading is one of the oldest and most intensely investigated topics in psychology, most research has been conducted with subjects who read an alphabetic language, usually English. Studying similarities and differences in the processes involved in reading non-alphabetic orthographies provides a means of testing the generality of findings in the psychology of reading.
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Lee, SY., Uttal, D.H., Chen, C. (1995). Writing Systems and Acquisition of Reading in American, Chinese, and Japanese First-Graders. In: Taylor, I., Olson, D.R. (eds) Scripts and Literacy. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1162-1_16
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