The major theoretical framework for the study of reading acquisition is the self-teaching theory. According to this theory, learning to read is based on incidental learning of novel orthographic forms through successful phonological decoding. Context could play a facilitating role when phonological decoding is partially correct.To date, only two computational models of self-teaching exist. They are based on the dual-route architecture, which assumes different processing for reading known words and novel words. The processing of known words is performed by direct access to the lexicon, whereas the processing of novel words is performed by graphemic segmentation, then application of grapheme-phoneme conversions, independent of lexical knowled...