What do we read aloud and how fast?
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2024/15/0018/000643Keywords:
accent phrases, silent reading, theta brain oscillations, delta brain oscillationsAbstract
We don’t read word by word, but instead we do read (and speak) accent phrases by accent phrases, i.e., by sequences of words containing only one (non-emphatic) stressed syllable. Only when we don’t recognize globally a string of written text or when we learn another language, more precisely when we learn to read in a language we are learning, that we proceed or may proceed syllable by syllable, to progressively reach reading word by word sequences, and finally accent phrase by accent phrase to attain reading fluency aloud or silently.
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