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Peer reviewedSuarez, Andres; Meara, Paul – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1989
Investigation of Spanish speakers' methods of recognizing written English suggested that speakers of Spanish, which has a highly regular spelling system, may rely on a phonological route because subjects performed quite poorly on exception words. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language), Language Processing, Phonology
