Why does the memorization of a novel alphabet with arbitrary symbol-sound correspondences typically require more cognitive resources than learning to read logographic writing in a previously unknown language?

A)Logographic systems have phonetic redundancy

B)Alphabets isolate semantic primes more efficiently

C)Logographs are inherently visually simpler

D)Alphabet acquisition relies on grapheme-phoneme conversion✓

💡 Explanation

Alphabet learning requires building grapheme-phoneme correspondences, a novel cognitive mapping task, because this explicit decoding is not directly present in logographic systems. Therefore, novel alphabet memorization demands increased cognitive load, rather than benefiting from pre-existing visual symbol associations found in some logographic systems.

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Why does the memorization of a novel alphabet with arbitrary symbol-sound correspondences typically require more cognitive resources than learning to read logographic writing in a previously unknown language?

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