Alphabetic words
phonological deficit, dyslexia
Our results revealed that reading performance of alphabetic words was significantly impaired in children with dyslexia. Specifically, we observed a lengthening of the articulation latency and an increase in the number of fixations. In contrast, the duration of the fixation period did not differ between the groups. This indicates that children with dyslexia process words in smaller units, which has also been interpreted as a strong reliance on sub-lexical reading [Our results agree with the phonological deficit hypothesis in alphabetic languages, which indicates that the difficulty in converting graphemes into phonemes is especially found in languages with regular orthography, such as German [The increase in articulation latency and number of fixations has been reported in the literature [The influence of typeface on reading performance in alphabetic languages is reported controversially in the literature. Some authors claim a superiority of a sans serif font (Arial) for reading on a screen [