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. 2012 Oct;35(5):291-2.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X12000076. Epub 2012 Aug 29.

Consideration of the linguistic characteristics of letters makes the universal model of reading more universal

Kyungil Kim  1 , Chang H Lee, Yoonhyoung Lee
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Consideration of the linguistic characteristics of letters makes the universal model of reading more universal

Kyungil Kim et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Oct.

Abstract

We suggest that the linguistic characteristics of letters also need to be considered to fully understand how a reader processes printed words. For example, studies in Korean showed that unambiguity in the assignment of letters to their appropriate onset, vowel, or coda slot is one of the main sources of the letter-transposition effect. Indeed, the cognitive system that processes Korean is tuned to the structure of the Korean writing system.

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