Unité de Recherche en Neurosciences cognitives (Unescog), Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences (CRCN), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), CP 191, 50 Ave F. Roosevelt. CP 191, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Cognition. 2021 Aug;213:104740. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104740. Epub 2021 Apr 21.
In contemporaneous cognitive psychology and cognitive science, literacy is not a central concept. In this paper, on the contrary, it is argued that both cognition and cognitive science are deeply influenced by literacy. Before addressing the experimental work on the structure of speech and spoken language, one of the major themes of Jacques Mehler's work, I recall his links with the Brussels Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and the important influence he had on the discipline and on our work. Most of the present paper is a discussion of the concept of the phoneme, its dependence on literacy, its role in language, and of the constant interactions between orthography and phonology in spoken language recognition. I argue that the phoneme is not a unit of perception, but a literate cognitive concept. In this way, I hope that cognitive science will overtly recognize the literacy heritage, the building of which it greatly contributes to.
在当代认知心理学和认知科学中，读写能力不是一个核心概念。相反，本文认为认知和认知科学都深受读写能力的影响。在讨论雅克·梅勒（Jacques Mehler）工作的主要主题之一——语音和口语结构的实验工作之前，我先回顾一下他与布鲁塞尔实验心理学实验室的联系，以及他对该学科和我们工作的重要影响。本文的大部分内容是讨论音位的概念，它对读写能力的依赖，它在语言中的作用，以及正字法和语音学在口语识别中的不断相互作用。我认为音位不是感知的单位，而是一种读写认知概念。通过这种方式，我希望认知科学能够公开承认其读写能力的传承，而这一传承正是它所做出的重要贡献。
