While some researchers emphasize universal phonological deficits across all writing systems, others demonstrate that reading in logographic scripts engages distinct visual and morphological pathways, leading to script-specific dyslexia and dysgraphia phenotypes.
The evidence we hold leans evenly split
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The retrieved literature presents two competing perspectives. Papers such as [0] and [2] argue that the fundamental cognitive and neural mechanisms of dyslexia and dysgraphia are universal across different languages and scripts. Conversely, papers such as [3], [5], and [8] show that logographic writing systems like Chinese rely heavily on visual, stroke, and morphological processing, resulting in distinct phenotypes and error profiles that differ from alphabetic languages. This mixture of universal phonological theories and script-specific manifestations justifies a CONTESTED verdict.