Speech and Reading: A Comparative Approach (Psychology Library Editions: Psychology of Reading) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138084514 ISBN 13: 9781138084513

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Originally published in 1995, this collection of papers introduced a new dimension to the understanding of reading by focusing on the relation between spoken and written language processing. New perspectives on speech and reading are introduced by highlighting aspects of the two linguistic skills that had received little attention in the past. The comparative perspective adopted in this collection presents an innovative focus on speech and the acquisition of alphabetic reading skill. Major new sources of evidence are discussed, like reading in nonconventional input modalities, braille reading, and speech processing in lip-reading. Contributors also discuss the reading process in non-alphabetic orthographies and the specifics of the reading acquisition problem in logographic or mixed writing systems (like Chinese and Japanese) and their relations to underlying speech representations. A central concern of all chapters is the role of phonological processes in different modalities and writings systems, and at different stages in the reading acquisition process. Drawing on expertise of the contributors, the book presents a novel and varied view of the achievements, the promises and the challenges facing the researcher once the intimate link between speech and reading comes to the foreground.

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Beatrice de Gelder, Jose Morais

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138084514
• ISBN 13: 9781138084513
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 386
• Editor: De Gelder Beatrice, Morais Jose