title: Orthographic processing is universal; it's what you do with it that's different.
abstract: We agree with Frost that the variety of orthographies in the world's languages complicates the task of "cracking the orthographic code." Frost suggests that orthographic processing must therefore differ between orthographies. We suggest that the same basic orthographic processes are applied to all languages. Where languages differ is in what the reader must do with the results of orthographic processing.
authors.affiliation: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge CB2 7EF, United Kingdom. dennis.norris@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Norris
authors.forename: Sachiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012660:Semantics