Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over what is
the" right" way to help children learn to read. Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that …

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Phonological speech errors only rarely occur in common function words. This paper
explores whether this effect is due to these words' status as function (closed-class) …

Rather than offering variations in" world view" as evidence for linguistic relativity, this book
views language related differences in terms of the facility with which information is …

The vast literature concerning printed word identification either contradicts or provides
ambiguous support for each of the central hypotheses of dual-process theory, the most …

A series of five experiments examined the effects of irrelevant speech on proofreading and
memory. Four of the experiments used a proofreading task and showed that the deleterious …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on the word recognition literature.
Word recognition research is central to notions regarding different levels/codes of analysis in …

It is now well established that phonological--and orthographic--codes play a crucial role in
the recognition of isolated words and in understanding the sequences of words that …

Forming an implementation intention ('If I encounter situation X, then I'll perform behaviour
Y!') is thought to increase the likelihood that the person will detect a good opportunity to act …

Ah yes, the word! The word is as central to psycholinguists as the cell is to biologists. In the
present chapter, I review some of the major issues that have been addressed in visual word …