I don't call myself a speed reader, but I'd find it pretty amazing if you could permanently lose your ability to subvocalize. I mean, that would seem like it would mean that you could no longer even talk to yourself in your own head.
If you did lose your ability to subvocalize then you'd just have to go back to actually reading outloud, assuming you didn't lose your ability to speak and then learning again like you do like in 1st grade how to read without talking.
And maybe the whole thing about eliminating subvocalization... maybe it just like learning to be able to understand someone who speaks really really softly and extrememly fast. At first, if you met someone like that then of course you would not be able to understand them without training... but after you practied it a whole bunch you could start to catch on, and so you could tell them to speak even faster and softer until one day it doesn't even seem like they are speaking at all... maybe something like white noise.
That's my guess of what it means to eliminate subvolcalization.
|