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STUDIES ON ‘INNER SPEECH’ PART I: READING AND SPEECH MOVEMENT
Author(s) -
GOTO Hiromu
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1968.tb01310.x
Subject(s) - psychology , reading (process) , grasp , perception , speech perception , audiology , motor theory of speech perception , word (group theory) , cognitive psychology , linguistics , computer science , medicine , neuroscience , philosophy , programming language
Summary: (1) Peripheral speech movements are necessary for ‘inner speech’ of normal infants, deaf children and aphasiacs. (2) In order to comprehend with visual perception alone, it is necessary to grasp the word as a whole. Loud reading helps deaf children and aphasiacs comprehend the word more easily. (3) Memory of letters with visual perception alone, whether it is simultaneous or continuous, is very poor even in normal adults equally to aphasiacs or deaf youngmen. (4) In the case of the congenital deaf, the place where the ‘inner speech’ is felt parts from peripheral organs, as they get advanced in linguistic ability. (5) In the case of normal adults, it is supposed that shortening of minimal speech movements and of ‘inner speech’ will occur in silent reading.