SUBVOCALISATION
المؤلف:
John Field
المصدر:
Psycholinguistics
الجزء والصفحة:
P292
2025-10-16
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SUBVOCALISATION
Evidence of movement in the speech tract (either muscularor involving the articulators) while reading or writing is taking place. There is controversy over the exact contribution that subvocalisation makes to the reading process. It is possible that it supports the reader’s subjective impression of an inner voice, but must be in some form of code, since articulating the words in full would be much slower than silent reading.
One view might be that subvocalisation is a relic of the way in which, as children, we acquired reading through the phonological system: certainly there is greater subvocalisation among novice readers than among more experienced ones. However, even with skilled readers, the phenomenon appears to increase as the difficulty of a reading task increases: there is evidence of greater subvocalisation with texts that are difficult to process and texts that are in a foreign language.
Experimental studies inhibited subvocalisation by playing unplea sant noises to readers when muscular activity reached a particular level. The consequence was a deterioration in levels of comprehension, suggesting that subvocalisation does indeed contribute to reading skill. However, an alternative interpretation of this finding is that it simply reflects the increased difficulty of reading in a way that (without subvocalisation) was unfamiliar.
See also: Inner speech, Reading: decoding
Further reading: Rayner and Pollatsek (1989)
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