| Number | 1084 |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Drawer | 20 |
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| Entry Date | 11/22/1999 |
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| Authors | Liberman, I., Liberman, A.M., Mattingly, I. & Shankweiler, D. |
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| Publication | In J.F. Kavanagh & R.L. Venezky (eds.) Orthography, Reading , and Dyslexia. University Park Press: Baltimore. pp. 137-153. |
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| Abstract | [Introduction]
Most of our research has been concerned with the processes and problems that occur in the beginning reader. It divides quite naturally into two parts. One deals with the importance to the reader of having some degree of sophistication about the linguistic structures that the orthography represents, and with the difficulty that attends the development of such sophistication in many beginners. While the importance of that sophistication is fixed, the difficulty of achieving it ought to vary greatly with the nature of the orthography and also, although perhaps less obviously, with the realties of the orthography to certain characteristics of the language. The other part of our research has to do with the importance to the reader of recovering a phonological representation of the language that he reads, especially for the purpose of meeting the short-term memory requirements that language imposes on those who would store the worlds long enough to understand the sentence. Since all languages impose that requirement-the meaning of a sentence is always distributed among the several words it comprises-we should expect that the results we have obtained with English would apply universally, but it remains to be determined whether, in fact, they do. |
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