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orthographic depth: a standalone construct

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Literacy education

how consistently a writing system maps letters to sounds, with deep systems like English less predictable than shallow ones.

In literacy education, orthographic depth refers to how consistently a writing system maps letters to sounds, with deep systems like English less predictable than shallow ones. This meaning comes from Frost (1987) in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.[1]

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References

Frost, R., Katz, L., & Bentin, S. (1987). Strategies for visual word recognition and orthographical depth: A multilingual comparison. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13(1), 104-115. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.13.1.104

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