title: Explaining word recognition, reading, the universe, and beyond: a modest proposal.
abstract: Frost proposes a new agenda for reading research, whereby cross-linguistic experiments would uncover linguistic universals to be integrated within a universal theory of reading. We reveal the dangers of following such a call, and demonstrate the superiority of the very approach that Frost condemns.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille University, 13331 Marseille, France. jonathan.grainger@univ-amu.fr
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grainger
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hannagan
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012660:Semantics