1. From: Standardized Assessment of Reading Performance: The New International Reading Speed Texts IReST
Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci ;53(9): doi: /iovs
Figure Legend:
Reading time (ms) per syllable dependent on the number of characters per syllable. The reading time per syllable is proportional to the number of characters per syllable. The slope of this line corresponds to the mean reading time per character for all 17 languages, which turns out to be 68 ms per character (95% CI of the means 65–71 ms) for 14 languages (except Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese). The SD of the residuals is ±50 ms/syllable. In Japanese, one character can consist of more than one syllable and in Chinese, one character corresponds exactly to one syllable. Among the alphabetic languages, Arabic and Hebrew have the lowest number of characters per syllable because of the missing vowels. For the remaining alphabetic languages, Spanish has the lowest number of characters per syllable (1.95) and correspondingly the lowest reading time per syllable (116 ms). In Slovenian we observe the longest reading time per syllable (266 ms) together with the highest number of characters per syllable (3.8).
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