2003-05-05 11:36:49, Peter_Constable@... wrote:

>
>BTW, even for Latin script, it's well known among psycholinguists that
>study reading that readers can identify individual letters, but that in
>fluent reading they do not do this. Rather, they process chunks of text,
>recognising sequences of letters as a unit. Processing each individual
>letter all the time would make for very slow reading.

Surely true. I'm aware that that happens as I read. Nevertheless, when we
[many of us, but not all?] begin to learn to read an essentially-phonetic
script, learning how the phonetic scheme works seems to be essential.
I surely am all but clueless what changes take place in
neural processing as one becomes a fluent reader, but I do know that
very few misspelled words and typos escape my attention (except in
my outgoing e-mail! I ceased to be a perfectionist).
Misspelled words look to me like a sketch of a face with its nose upside
down, or three eyes. Nevertheless, I read fast.

Back to Qalam's emphasis, typography enters here, making these
"word clusters" (?) easy to recognize; a very-legible typeface seems to
assist a lot in the "cluster-recognition" process.

Back to an earlier message, it seems unfortunate that Korean isn't taught
initially on a phonetic basis.

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