Re: .. dyslexia (totally OT!!)

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From: Michael Salem
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:00

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A question about dyslexia: English spelling is very irregular (cough 
enough plough through thorough though hiccough), in the sense that 
there's no one-to-one relationship between spellings and sounds.
Many other languages are far more regular (maybe the combination of 
letters mapped to a sound doesn't make sense phonetically, but it is 
consistent). I think Spanish, Italian, French, and German are all 
pretty regular (though exactly which languages are regular isn't what 
I'm discussing).

Do people have similar problems with dyslexia in these languages?
If so, how do the statistics compare with English?

Or does regularity of spelling have nothing to do with dyslexia?

Best wishes,
-- 
Michael Salem

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From: 4ms2u$ms@michaels.demon.co.uk (Michael Salem)
Subject: Re: .. dyslexia (totally OT!!)
Date: 2000/02/22
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