BOOTSTRAPPING THE CHILD INTO READING: IS THE FIRST
READING PROCESS PHONOLOGICAL OR VISUAL?
Commentary on Skoyles on Reading

Abstract

Letter-to-sound rules do not seem to provide a more basic level for the child to bootstrap into reading, whereas Seymour's logographic route does. There is evidence that phonetic reading happens sometime in the course of development, this is likely to result from the child's induction of a procedure which encodes the letter-sound mapping in some form. This could well be a PDP network or a set of rules. I'm still not sure what the mature model should look like, but as Coltheart (1991) points out in his commentary, it does not look like Seidenberg and McClelland's PDP. Neither does it look like a set of letter-to-sound rules.

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