Speech And Reading
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: November 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780863773556
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Psycholinguistics; Semantics (meaning); General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Psychology
First sentence: Theories of reading-writing and theories of speech typically have in common that neither takes proper account of an obvious fact about language that must, in any reckoning, be critically relevant to both: There is a vast difference in naturalness (hence ease of use) between its spoken and written forms.