Reading in different orthographies

Ellis, N. C., & Hooper, A. M. (2001).  Why learning to read is easier in Welsh than in English: Orthographic transparency effects evinced with frequency-matched tests. Applied Psycholinguistics, 22:4, 571-599. download

Ellis, N. C., Natsume, M., Stavropoulou,, K., Hoxhallari, L., van Daal, V. H. P., Polyzoe, N., Tsipa, M., & Petalas, M. (2004). The effects of orthographic depth on learning to read alphabetic, syllabic, and logographic scripts. Reading Research Quarterly, 39, 438-468. download

Ellis, N. C. (1994). Writing systems in evolution and by design. In U. Frith, G. Ludi, M. Egli and C-A. Zuber (Eds.), Proceedings of the workshop on contexts of literacy, Volume III. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation.

Hoxhallari, L., van Daal, V. H. P., & Ellis, N. C. (2004). Learning to read words in Albanian: A skill easily acquired.  Scientific Studies of Reading, 8, 153-166. download