[B-Greek] psycholinguistics and Greek study

Cirk Bejnar eluchil404 at yahoo.com
Sun May 9 21:13:19 EDT 2004


> --- lance w seevers <lws39 at juno.com> wrote:
> > Taht wluod seem to be ture olny for a lgaugnae you
> > konw rllaey wlel!
> > wlat srevees
> > mluossia mnatnoa
> 
> And also for words which context provides sufficient
> clues.  Walt's signiture, for instance, is quite
> opaque to me.  I doubt that it has much relevance to
> Greek except as an example of how context rather
> than
> parsing is the key to fluency.  
> 
> In my own case, I noticed how my understanding of
> Greek context has grown over the course of this
> semester.  I've been reading an Attic tragedy
> (Medea)
> with many ellisions and at the beginning of the
> semester I was often completely clueless as to what
> vowel had been elided, but by the end I was
> confidently supply them in my oral reading.
> 
> Cirk R. Bejnar



	
		
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