Phonological Coding in Word Perception and Reading

Abstract The work presented here indicates that phonological coding is an important component of the silent reading process in two languages, English and Chinese, that have often been thought to have orthographies that discourage phonological coding in going from print to meaning. The research indicates that phonological codes are extracted early in the reading process, even before a word is fixated in text. Moreover, they are involved in accessing the meanings of words. Accompanying work on phonological coding suggests that (a) phonological codes may be closer in form to the acoustic speech stream than an abstract representation of phonemes, (b) that they are not necessarily formed sequentially from left-to-right, and (c) that the pattern of information accrual may depend on the language involved.

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