ABSTRACT
Speech, language and their development represent a permanent source of interest for people in various scientific fields. The higher the quality of knowledge and the better the technique of research, the greater is the interest for this form of human behaviour which makes man what he is — ”homosimbolicum” — which has remained rather a secret in both philogenetic and onthogenetic aspects of speech and language, although there is a vast number of known facts. This chapter discusses how various forms of verbal development affect the acquisition of elementary reading as a higher form of language behavior. It discusses the relationship between normal verbal development and the acquisition of some other forms of language development such as reading. Reading was observed by use of the articulatory test-story invented by the researcher according to certain principles.
