Re: Wood eye? Wood eye? Tin ear! Tin ear!

Subject: Re: Wood eye? Wood eye? Tin ear! Tin ear!
From: Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:56:51 -0600

OK, OK, I stand corrected. I don't say the words out loud, just in my head!

Lashes with wet noodles and all that!

Jo Byrd

Roy Jacobsen wrote:

> Ummm, can we clarify what y'all mean by "subvocalize"? In the previously cited
> words of Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what
> you think it means."
>
> I think that most people, unless they've taken speed-reading training, read
> "out loud in their heads;" that is, they "hear" each word to themselves, but
> the process is entirely mental. (In fact, most speed-reading training is
> designed to break this habit.) The vocal apparatus is not involved.
> Subvocalization is a different sort of beast. It is "the act or process of
> inaudibly articulating speech with the speech organs."


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