The transparency of the Finnish orthography with its small set of grapheme-phoneme correspondences seems to enhance children’s reading acquisition …

„The transparency of the Finnish orthography with its small set of grapheme-phoneme correspondences seems to enhance children’s reading acquisition, as previous studies have consistently found that basic word decoding skills are easily acquired by L1 Finnish children.“
Eva Malessa, „Learning to read for the first time as adult immigrants in Finland“. In: „Apples Journal of Applied Language Studies“ (2018), 12 (1), S. 30