Re: Reading depends on writing, in Chinese


Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Austin P. So (Hae Jin) wrote:
> >
> > http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/102/24/8781?etoc
> >
> > PNAS | June 14, 2005 | vol. 102 | no. 24 | 8781-8785
> >
> > Reading depends on writing, in Chinese
> >
> > Li Hai Tan *, John A. Spinks {dagger}, Guinevere F. Eden {ddagger},
> > Charles A. Perfetti § and Wai Ting Siok *, ¶
>
> > Language development entails four fundamental and interactive abilities:
> > listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Over the past four decades, a
>
> No, it doesn't; reading and writing are strictly optional.

I'd say, even learning to speak is optional.

I grew up in a bilingual country where TV news used to
be presented by a pair of reporters alternately reporting
news items in their respective national languages; where
the local cinema films in one of the two languages were
never dubbed or subtitled.

I can perfectly understand both of these two languages but
speak (let alone write) correctly only one of them.

Paul JK

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