An inescapable feature of alphabetic languages, in which a relatively small alphabet is used to represent tens or hundreds of thousands of words, is that the spelling of a given word is often similar to that of many other words. This orthographic similarity requires the visual word identification system to make rather fine discriminations, so as to recognise, for example, that Òthe thickset manÓ is not the same as Òthe thickest manÓ. Ordinarily, the word identification system succeeds in select
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How do readers code letter position?
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Type: Book Chapter
Book Title: Visual Word Recognition: Volume 1 (2012)
ISBN: 9781848720589