I don’t sub-vocalize, as far as I can tell. I tend to read by just looking at the first letter of a word and then the shape of the word, rather then by reading phonetically; that’s just how I taught myself to read, even before I stated learning to read in school. The upside is that I read much faster then most people seem to; the downside is that I’m terrible at spelling, and I tend to be bad at pronouncing words out loud if I’ve only read them and not heard them.
In fact, I’ve noticed before that I often think in written English rather then in audible English; I sometimes “see” words when I’m thinking to myself instead of “hearing” them.
Most people read by recognizing whole words (mainly using first and last letters and the overall shape), so I don’t think that’s much evidence about whether you subvocalize. It is also probably not much connected to your spelling ability. That’s not to say that I doubt your introspection about not subvocalizing any more than other people’s introspection.
Interesting. I was under the impression that the way I read was more like how people are taught to do in speedreading classes, and that most people read more phonetically then I do. But I guess I don’t really know which is more common.
I don’t sub-vocalize, as far as I can tell. I tend to read by just looking at the first letter of a word and then the shape of the word, rather then by reading phonetically; that’s just how I taught myself to read, even before I stated learning to read in school. The upside is that I read much faster then most people seem to; the downside is that I’m terrible at spelling, and I tend to be bad at pronouncing words out loud if I’ve only read them and not heard them.
In fact, I’ve noticed before that I often think in written English rather then in audible English; I sometimes “see” words when I’m thinking to myself instead of “hearing” them.
Most people read by recognizing whole words (mainly using first and last letters and the overall shape), so I don’t think that’s much evidence about whether you subvocalize. It is also probably not much connected to your spelling ability. That’s not to say that I doubt your introspection about not subvocalizing any more than other people’s introspection.
Interesting. I was under the impression that the way I read was more like how people are taught to do in speedreading classes, and that most people read more phonetically then I do. But I guess I don’t really know which is more common.