Edited by
R. Frost, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Marian Katz, PhD, Assistant Research Sociologist, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Description
The area of research on printed word recognition has been one of the most active in the field of experimental psychology for well over
a decade. However, notwithstanding the energetic research effort and despite the fact that there are many points of consensus, major
controversies still exist.
This volume is particularly concerned with the putative relationship between language and reading. It explores
the ways by which orthography, phonology, morphology and meaning are interrelated in the reading process. Included are theoretical discussions
as well as reviews of experimental evidence by leading researchers in the area of experimental reading studies. The book takes as its
primary issue the question of the degree to which basic processes in reading reflect the structural characteristics of language such
as phonology and morphology. It discusses how those characteristics can shape a language's orthography and affect the process of reading
from word recognition to comprehension.
Contributed by specialists, the broad-ranging mix of articles and papers not only gives a picture
of current theory and data but a view of the directions in which this research area is vigorously moving.
Included in series
Advances in Psychology
