Effects of Orthographic Consistency on Bilingual Reading: Human and Computer Simulation Data.

ABSTRACT: English serves as today's lingua franca, a role not eased by the inconsistency of its orthography. Indeed, monolingual readers of more consistent orthographies such as Italian or German learn to read more quickly than monolingual English readers. Here, we assessed whether long-lasting bilingualism would mitigate orthography-specific differences in reading speed and whether the order in which orthographies with a different regularity are learned matters. We studied high-proficiency Italian-English and English-Italian bilinguals, with at least 20 years of intensive daily exposure to the second language and its orthography and we simulated sequential learning of the two orthographies with the CDP++ connectionist model of reading. We found that group differences in reading speed were comparati

SUBMITTER: Paulesu E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8301906 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature