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Linguists have something to say about reading education, but some of the things linguistic knowledge would suggest do not work when they are tried out. These failures generally happen for reasons that have very little to do with the direct relationship between language and writing: the main thing linguists are in a position to talk about.
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Fasold, R.W. (1982). Spelling, Reading, Language Variation. In: Frawley, W. (eds) Linguistics and Literacy. Topics in Language and Linguistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9302-7_12
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