ABSTRACT
The preceding chapter was concerned with immediate word identification, and the manner in which visual feature lists may be established and used so that words can be recognized on sight, without "decoding to sound" or any other means ofmediated word identification. In fact, the chapter argued that letter-by-Ietter identification is unnecessary and even impossible for word identification in normal reading, thus leaving no room for decoding to sound. Immediate word identification is illustrated in Fig. 9.1.
