Fonología sin audición

Abstract

Reading is based in phonology. Letters represent phonemes with greater or less fidelity and this fact is fundamental for learning to read, as current reading models show. In the case of deaf persons, the access to phonology may be made difficult by the hearing loss and therefore cause problems in reading. So it would be important to conceive a phonology that develops without auditory information and that might come in useful for reading, in other words, to consider the existence of an audio-visual phonology. This is the aim of this paper. To achieve this, some research would be analyzed to show that auditory information is not the only source of phonology, but that it could be regarded as a linguistic system of contrasts that governs how abstract speech units may be combined to convey meaning.