Reviews the proceedings of a 1971 conference on the relationships between speech and learning to read, and discusses related literature and research under these topics: acquisition of speech and reading, the deaf child's language acquisition, orthography and linguistic awareness, reading maturity and age: short-term memory, and attaining fluent…

Three experiments with children between 5 and 7 years are described. It is shown that nominal predication of an unknown word by a superordinate term enables young children to make appropriate inferences concerning its attributes. The results are discussed in relation to semantic development and reasoning in the young child. (Author/RM)

The speech children spontaneously quote was examined in 2 studies involving personal narratives from 96 children aged 4 to 9 and speech in 25 children aged 1 to 5. Findings showed that frequency of reported speech increased with age and direct quotation was more common than indirect or summarized quotations at all ages. (57 references) (Author/LB)