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Whereas most studies have been undertaken in Western European languages written in the Roman alphabet, the present developmental study investigates a non-European language\u2014Hebrew, which is written in a non-alphabetic (abjadic) script. We compared the eye-movements of children in Grades 4 to 6 (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> =\u200930) and university students (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> =\u200930) reading familiar real words and unfamiliar (pseudo)words of 3 letters and 5 letters in length. Using linear mixed models, we focused on the effects of word familiarity, word length, and age group. 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