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Abstract
There is an extensive literature on reading development in English; however, the research carried out in other languages is more limited. The aim of the present study is to examine reading acquisition in Greek. Because of the characteristics of the Greek orthography it was assumed that Greek children would rely on phonological processing in the beginning of reading acquisition and that phonological processing will allow for the development of the orthographic lexicon. In order to test these hypotheses the study explored the word and non-word reading performances of primary school children, assessing effects attributed to phonological processing. In addition, effects that are assumed to be the manifestation of lexical processing were also assessed. The fact that most developmental studies on reading have been performed in English, which has a deep writing system, makes exploring reading in languages with different orthographic features even more interesting.