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subvocal

(sŭb-vō′kəl)

adj.

Characterized by movement of the lips or other speech organs without making audible sounds: subvocal speech.

sub·vo′cal·ly adv.

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In fact, it has been shown that older and younger adults' performances were equal when none of them were allowed to subvocally rehearse the digits (Gerhand, 1994; cited in Phillips & Hamilton, 2001).

Verbal forward digit span in Spanish population

In this work, a sample of 9 adults performed a working-memory task (in which they had to remember 1 or 6 visually presented letters) and a motor rehearsal task (they read subvocally 1 or 6 letters).

A neurocognitive approach to the study of private speech

The authors posited the slow rate provided students enough time to subvocally read the words before or after the word was presented, but the fast rate condition did not allow for opportunities to respond.

A comparison of the effects of two rates of listening while reading on oral reading fluency and reading comprehension

That is, he was encouraged to pronounce the word to be spelled either vocally or subvocally, to segment it into phonemes, and to mark each phoneme with the corresponding letter.

Reflective spelling strategies for elementary school students with severe writing difficulties: a case study

There were very few omissions and no overt evidence of painstaking attempts to sound the items out, although a couple of the less-skilled readers were very slow and may have been doing this subvocally.

The effects of familiarity, orthographic neighbourhood density, letter-length and graphemic complexity on children's reading accuracy

In contrast, children of average and above-average IQ showed virtually no performance gain after instructions to name the stimuli aloud, presumably because they were already naming them spontaneously, but subvocally, prior to the instruction (34; see also 52, 55, 56, 67, 78, 93).