The role of vowels in reading Semitic scripts: Data from Arabic and Hebrew

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Awareness of linear and nonlinear morphology in Hebrew: a developmental study (2001, background): “Moreover, being mostly vocalic, patterns are under-represented in the spelling system (Shimron 1993).”
The cognitive processes involved in learning to read in Arabic (2004, background): “Recognising these letter variants and possessing knowledge of their writing rules in different positions is critical for readers’ word identification and word decoding in reading, which may demand considerable cognitive attention (Abu-Rabia, 2001).”
Word recognition and basic cognitive processes among reading-disabled and normal readers in Arabic (2003, unknown): “Inflectional morphology enables the reader to pronounce the word accurately and to realize the grammatical function of the word in the sentence by taking into account the short vowels, especially the vowelization of the word’s final letter (Abu-Rabia, 2001).”
Reading and spelling error analysis of native (2004, background): “Reading accuracy in Arabic requires vowelizing word endings according to their grammatical function in the sentence, which is an advanced phonological and syntactical ability (Abu-Rabia, 2001).”
On the Anglocentricities of current reading research and practice: the perils of overreliance on an "outlier" orthography. (2008, background): “Abu-Rabia (1997, 2001) has maintained that this finding is attributable to the fact that every second or third word in unvowelized Arabic is homographic.”