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Alaa Ghandour, Emmanuel Trouche, Dominique Guillo, Sylviane Valdois
Introduction The involvement of phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatized naming (RAN) and letter knowledge (LK) in Arabic reading achievement is well established, but evidence for a unique contribution of visual attention span (VAS) remains limited. Studies in Indo-European languages have reported a direct and…
Ibrahim Asadi, Abeer Asli-Badarneh
The present review explores how the unique linguistic and orthographic characteristics of Arabic interact to shape the development of literacy in Arabic. The review is based on a systematic synthesis of empirical studies published between 2000 and 2025, including behavioral, developmental, and neurocognitive research…
Xenia Schmalz, Jay G. Rueckl, Noam Siegelman
Cross-linguistic reading research often focuses on the effect of orthographic depth-the closeness of the relationship between print and speech. To understand its effect on reading, we need to be able to objectively quantify the level of orthographic depth of a given orthography. Previous work has suggested that…
Hiroki Fukui
Writing systems are cultural replicators whose evolution has never been studied quantitatively at global scale. We compile the Global Script Database (GSD): 300 writing and notation systems, 50 binary structural characters, and 259 phylogenetic edges spanning 5,400 years. Applying four methods -- phenetics, cladistics…
Bahaa Madi Tarabya, Asaid Khateb
While research on the predictors of reading and reading comprehension is extensive in child and in some adult populations, particularly in alphabetic languages, few studies have examined such factors among Arabic-speaking adults. This study examined the extent to which the same linguistic and cognitive predictors…
J. S. H. Taylor, Adam Jowett, Tibor Auer, Cheng-Yu Hsieh + 2 more
Writing systems are cultural inventions that differ in how they represent spoken language. We tested how the brain learns to map arbitrary visual symbols to sound and meaning by comparing neural activity for artificial writing systems that were either alphabetic (systematic symbol-sound mappings) or logographic…
Ponrawee Prasertsom, Andrea Silvi, Jennifer Culbertson, Moa Johansson + 2 more
Previous work has argued that recursive numeral systems optimise the trade-off between lexicon size and average morphosyntatic complexity (Denic and Szymanik ´ , 2024). However, showing that only natural-language-like systems optimise this tradeoff has proven elusive, and the existing solution has relied on ad-hoc…
Qihao Yang, Xuelin Wang, Jiale Chen, Xuelian Dong + 2 more
Language acquisition is vital to revealing the nature of human language intelligence and has recently emerged as a promising perspective for improving the interpretability of large language models (LLMs). However, it is ethically and practically infeasible to conduct experiments that require controlling human learners'…
Ting Li, Azlina Abdul Aziz, Nur Ainil Sulaiman
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into educational contexts, understanding how learners engage with AI-generated feedback is critical. Although prior research has examined the effectiveness of automated writing evaluation, less attention has been given to the cognitive and affective…
Jinhua Zhang, Muhammad Zammad Aslam
English writing competence is a significant manifestation of students’ second language proficiency. However, comprehensive synchronic empirical research remains scarce regarding how students at application-oriented universities perform in terms of linguistic complexity in their compositions. To bridge this gap, this…
Junyi Zhou, Rui Liu, Pengyu Liu, Yu Liu
We introduce the ladderpath index as a measure of language complexity grounded in algorithmic information theory. It counts the minimum steps needed to reconstruct a sequence through hierarchical reuse of repeated substructures, capturing an exactly computable but constrained form of algorithmic compressibility related…
Joonwoo Kim, Solbin Lee, Kichun Nam
A central question in visual word recognition concerns whether orthographic and phonological codes are coordinated sequentially or in parallel during lexical access. Korean Hangul, an alpha-syllabic writing system with morphophonemic spelling principles, allows independent manipulation of orthographic and phonological…
Joonwoo Kim, Solbin Lee, Kichun Nam
A fundamental question in psycholinguistics concerns whether morphological decomposition is obligatory during visual word recognition or whether whole-word access can occur under conditions of high frequency and familiarity. The present study aimed to examine how morphological complexity and lexical frequency jointly…
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Mass spectrometry (MS) generates large datasets that are stored in increasingly optimized and complex file types, demanding technical expertise to extract information rapidly and easily. We wondered whether a simple structured query language (SQL) database could hold raw MS data and allow for easily readable queries…
Dibyajyoti Mohanta, Manish Dwivedi, Hiranmay Maity, Debaprasad Giri
Polymer association in confined spaces governs diverse phenomena from protein aggregation to DNA condensation. We investigate the sequence-level mechanisms underlying this behavior through exact enumeration of two confined AB-type block copolymers on a two-dimensional lattice, revealing how sequence complexity controls…
Siyi Fan, Xiaoxia Feng, Xi Yu, Minye Zhan + 3 more
Learning to read a second language requires the brain to incorporate a new writing system into an already established native-language reading network, yet how this process reshapes the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) remains poorly understood. Using fMRI with a passive viewing paradigm, we systematically investigated how…