HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING AND READING
Commentary on Skoyles on Reading

Abstract

I given a brief sketch of the early visual display of "alphabetic" language that I think leads to three conclusions: First, in alphabetic cultures there has been a slow development towards an increasing visualization of written language. Second, as the way language is displayed changes, so does the way it must be processed. Third, because of the second conclusion, I do not think the study of reading can be divorced from the way language is written, which means that if a computer model is to be of significant help in understanding human processing, it will have to closely model the input that humans use.

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