ABSTRACT
This chapter looks how words are identified in reading and listening. Klatt also notes that models of speech perception includes a route from input to output which does not go via word recognition to explain how to repeat unfamiliar words. This is similar in function to the nonlexical letter-phoneme conversion route used to read aloud unfamiliar words. The chapter describes 'Context' in language reception can mean more than just the surrounding sounds or letters, it can also mean the surrounding words and sentences. Many experiments show that these wider contexts can also affect perception. This evidence takes the form of showing that the meaning of the unconsciously perceived word can influence the simultaneous or subsequent perception of a related word. The unconscious apprehension of word meanings can be reliably and replicably demonstrated it may have much to teach about the nature of consciousness and its role in mental processing.
