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Landerl, Karin; Wimmer, Heinz – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
Discusses studies of dyslexia in German- and English-speaking children. Argues that deficits in phoneme awareness are only evident in the early stages of reading acquisition, whereas rapid naming and phonological memory deficits are more persistent in dyslexic children. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Children, Dyslexia, English, Error Patterns

Wimmer, Heinz; Goswami, Usha – Cognition, 1994
Groups of seven- to nine-year olds learning to read in English and German were given three types of reading tasks. Whereas reading time and error rates in numeral and number word reading were very similar across the two orthographies, the German children showed a big advantage in reading the nonsense words, suggesting adoption of different…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries