Hebrew Orthography and Dyslexia — A Note

Abstract

three features of Hebrew distinguish it markedly from the Western languages / two are strictly orthographic: the right-to-left direction of the script that influences eye-scan direction, and the relative absence of vowels in most materials read by modern Hebrew readers / vowel patterns [the third distinctive feature involved in Hebrew reading] are predictable in Semitic words read in context because they serve certain inflectional and semantic functions focus on the latter two features of Hebrew orthography interaction between morphology and orthography / case studies (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)