The psycholinguistic approach to reading integrates psychology and linguistics to explore the cognitive processes related to reading and language c...

The psycholinguistic approach to reading integrates psychology and linguistics to explore the cognitive processes related to reading and language comprehension. Based on a psycholinguistic approach to reading, we can affirm that alphabets are indispensable for reading print. Without them, there would be no general agreement over the correspondence between letters and sounds alphabets encode speech in very idiosyncratic ways and that explains why the decoding of letters, syllables and words can vary expressively from one reader to another the areas in the brain responsible for reading are not activated when humans engage in activities D other than reading print the brain provides human beings with a dedicated area for the reading of print. Thanks to this specialization of the human brain, we can translate letters into sounds