“Decodability” Can Be Hard to Define
A Hypothesis...
Why Use A Computational Model?
The Harm & Seidenberg (1999) Model of Reading
Then, Teach it To Read
Key Results
The Next Step
Method
Measure 1: Acquisition of Words
Measure 2: Generalization to Nonwords
Measure 3: Decoding Novel Items In Text
Future Directions
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