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No reason to expect “reading universals”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Yonata Levy
Yonata Levy*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. [email protected]://psychology.huji.ac.il/
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Abstract

Writing systems encode linguistic information in diverse ways, relying on cognitive procedures that are likely to be general purpose rather than specific to reading. Optimality in reading for meaning is achieved via the entire communicative act, involving, when the need arises, syntax, nonlinguistic context, and selective attention.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 293
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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Chomsky, N. (2006) Language and mind, 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar