Differences in reading acquisition development in two shallow orthographies: Portuguese and Spanish

By Sylvia Defior, Francisco Martos, Luz Cary. Applied Psycholinguistics, 2002

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Cross-language transfer of phonological and orthographic processing skills from Spanish L1 to English L2 (2011, background): “Defior, Martos, and Cary (2002) conducted a study involving Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking children; two groups of monolingual speakers participated in the study.”
Learning to Read Words: Theory, Findings, and Issues (2005, background): “Results of the Defior et al. (2002) study with Spanish students are presented in Figure 11.”
Learning to read: English in comparison to six more regular orthographies (2003, methodology): “The present results extend the original findings, the English– German replication of Landerl (2000), and the Spanish–Portuguese replication of Defior et al. (2002). They also provide additional important information on reading development in different orthographic contexts.”