Xenia Schmalz
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xenia Schmalz is involved.
Articles
2026 German reading, spelling, and other literacy-related skills in multilinguals with varying heritage languages Written Language & Literacy 29:1, pp. 33–72 | Article
We examine effects of multilingualism on literacy acquisition in German, in two large-scale datasets with primary school children. First, we assess if there are overall differences in written language skills, after accounting for social factors and oral language skills. Second, we investigate… read more
2017 Busting a myth with the Bayes Factor: Effects of letter bigram frequency in visual lexical decision do not reflect reading processes The Mental Lexicon 12:2, pp. 263–282 | Article
Psycholinguistic researchers identify linguistic variables and assess if they affect cognitive processes. One such variable is letter bigram frequency, or the frequency with which a given letter pair co-occurs in an orthography. While early studies reported that bigram frequency affects visual… read more