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caeli · 3699 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Test That Can Look Into A Child's (Reading) Future : NPR Ed : NPR
You know IPA?! Marry me. Anyhow, this would be interesting to look into, although I'm not totally convinced that there would be a qualitative difference between Chinese and English. Most models of reading in dyslexia assume, implicitly or explicitly, that reading involves converting symbols into speech sounds internally, then processing those speech sounds, so that when . English doesn't have a one-to-one mapping between letters and sounds anyway (i.e., "th" is one sound, not two, and can be realized as either [θ] or [ð]). So in that sense Chinese is just an extreme case of such symbolism. But it would be fascinating to see if degree of symbolism in orthography affects reading in some way./'naɪf/