abstract) do not affect Kannadaword reading latencies (Experiment 1), whereassyllable length, orthographic complexity, andphoneme/grapheme sequence irregularity doaffect reading latencies (Experiment 2). The resultsindicate that word frequency and word type(concrete vs. Twoexperiments are reported on factors influencingrapid reading of words in Kannada, a Dravidianlanguage spoken in southern India. However,there is hardly any empirical research base onseveral of these writing systems. Oflate, there has been some interest in theprocessing of non-alphabetic scripts. Reading has been an extensively studied topicin the Western hemisphere for several decades,and an enormous amount of empirical data hasaccumulated on various aspects of readingalphabetic writing systems like English.
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