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How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille

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The Direct Route to Orthography in Braille

Reading scientists call the direct route to orthography so direct mapping from form to meaning more easily than does completely uncontracted Braille interesting you give a couple examples in your talk one of them is the word the or the law might be an example of something you want to just get through real quickly. But then also groups of letters are contracted as well and that's kind of where your research lies. Those can actually cross these boundaries that we're used to respecting with the way we chunk sounds.

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