title: A theory of reading.
abstract: This article presents an explanatory model of reading competence, correlating different levels of linguistic, procedural, and neurological description in an information-processing paradigm. The overall design is an orthographic-to-phonological base form coding, differentiated lexical access, syntactic-structural derivation by means of an analysis-by-synthesis algorithm, and optional phonological and semantic interpretive processes at the level of syntactic surface structure. The model seeks to integrate and explain a representative sample of experimental phenomena. Major conclusions are that intact simultaneous functioning and awareness of abstract linguistic entities are necessary elements in the development of adult reading competence.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D008959:Models, Neurological; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics