List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction - Speech and Reading: One Side to Two Coins Beatrice de Gelder and Jose Morais Part 1: Speech Processing, Its Specificity and Its Relation to Reading 1. The Relation of Speech to Reading and Writing Alvin M. Liberman 2. The Recognition of Lexical Units in Speech Anne Cutler and James M. McQueen 3. On the Linguistic Module in Auditory Memory Robert G. Crowder and Aimee M. Surprenant 4. Gestures, Features and Segments in Early Child Speech Michael Studdert-Kennedy and Elizabeth Whitney Goodell Part 2: Speech and Reading in Different Modalities 5. Language by Touch: The Case of Braille Reading Paul Bertelson 6. Pre-lingual Deafness and Literacy: A New Look at Old Ideas Ruth Campbell and Vivian Burden 7. Memory Deficits for Heard Lip-read Speech in Young and Adult Poor Readers Beatrice de Gelder and Jean Vroomen Part 3: Reading in Different Orthographies 8. Cognitive Processes in Writing Chinese Characters: Basic Issues and Some Preliminary Data Sam-Po Law and Alfonso Caramazza 9. Phonological Processes in Serbo-Croatian and English Georgije Lukatela and M.T. Turvey 10. Nonsemantic Reading in Kanji and English: Universal and Language-specific Features Sumiko Sasanuma and Karalyn Patterson 11. Learning to be a Conspirator: A Tale of Becoming a Good Chinese Reader Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Zhong Hui Lin, Daisy L. Hung and Wei Ling Lee Part 4: Reading Acquisition and Its Impact on Language Processes 12. Phonological and Grammatical Skills in Learning to Read Peter Bryant 13. The Impact of Learning to Read on the Functional Anatomy of Language Processing Thomas H. Carr and Michael I. Posner 14. Literacy and Linguistic Awareness Pratibha Karanth, Asha Kudva and Aparna Vijayan 15. The Consequences of Phonemic Awareness Jose Morais and Regine Kolinsky 16. Mechanisms of Word-retrieval: Neuropsychological Investigations of Patients with Parkinson's Disease J.M. Gurd and J.C. Marshall. Author Index. Subject Index.