Haskins Publications

Number	838
Year	1992
Drawer	1 5
Entry Date	07/20/1998
Authors	Katz, Leonard, and Frost, Ram
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Publication	Orthography, Phonology, Morphology, and Meaning, edited by R. Frost and L. Katz. Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V. 1-8.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0838.pdf
Abstract	The area of research on printed word recognition has been one of the most active in the field of experimental psychology for well over a decade. This is in part because the behavior under scrutiny is seen as complex enough to be interesting but circumscribed enough to make discovery feasible. It contains many of the theoretical concepts that are part of the cognitive psychologist’s standard investigative repertoire (form perception, attention, awareness, information, representation, neural networks, theoretical linguistics - to name a few) and an armamentarium of clever experimental techniques. However, notwithstanding the energetic research effort and despite the fact that there are many point of consensus, major controversies still exist. One central matter is the question of whether to view reading primarily as a linguistic activity or, alternatively, as a process that is subject to the same kinds of learning as other visually based, but nonlinguistic, information. Our stance on this is that it is quite necessary to take spoken language into consideration when attempting to understand the psychological processes by which reading is accomplished...
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