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German and English Bodies: No Evidence for Cross-Linguistic Differences in Preferred Orthographic Grain Size

Xenia Schmalz, Serje Robidoux, Anne Castles, Max Coltheart, Eva Marinus
Journal: Collabra: Psychology
Collabra: Psychology (2017) 3 (1): 5.
https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.72
Published: 07 March 2017
... support the psycholinguistic grain size theory, which proposes that readers of English rely on large orthographic units to reduce ambiguity of print-to-speech correspondences in their orthography. Here we re-examine the evidence for this pattern and find that there is no reliable evidence for such a cross...
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