Some words sound the same but are spelled differently (e.g. knight vs night). We simulate the evolution of spelling to find out why differentiated spellings emerge and persist despite the learning challenge they pose.

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The way that Chinese characters are combined to create new concepts is interesting and challenging! Loved learning about this from PhD student Cheng-Yu Hsieh.

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Great thread.

Do any reading practitioners know which reading scheme these characters come from?

Check this out, word nerds! I'm very proud of this one. From the science point of view, it has it all. We ran two experiments; E2 was pre-registered, to confirm the predictions generated by E1. We also have a formal model, which casted quantitative predictions of E2 based on E1.

Loved my visit to this beautiful school today! Every child so excited to tell me about the book they are reading. 📚

Thanks for covering this Royal Holloway! If you are interested in finding out more, the link to the paper is: doi.org/10.1111/desc.1…

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