Hi Martin, yes that's my interest in this - abduction as a process of
filling in puzzling experiences. Sometimes abduction is finding the
right bit of prior knowledge, other times it is creating something new.
I was really curious how well known this phenomenon is and what its
evidentiary basis was given that, like Margaret, I was seeing it
referred to more and more often recently. If it is urban legend, so be
it, since it seems pretty self-evident to native English speakers. I
would be interested in how the original passage I posted was perceived
by those with English as a second or other language and if there is a
parallel phenomena in their first language. I think abduction plays a
huge role in reading and others seem to be coming around to
agreeing.......djc
Don Cunningham
Indiana University
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Ryder [mailto:mryder@carbon.cudenver.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:11 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: Lteter Oerdr?
Don,
Fr a graet srce, consdr the wrk 'f Jerome Bruner (1973), 'Beyond the
Information Given'. Bruner w'd sa th't the cntxt of a givn feld of
data, alng with the schma th't we impos into th't cntxt 'nables us t'
xtrct clr ndrstndng from othrwiz imprcptble felds 'f data.
Bruner sggsts tht wre cnstntly mkng 'nfrnces basd 'n
pr-xistng ctgries th't r knwn t' us...the 'bdctive proces u
knw wel 's 'smeosis'.
Martin R.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Cunningham, Donald James wrote:
> Has anyone ever come across the actual research on this?
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> "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
> in what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
> that the first and last ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be
> a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. This is
> bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
> wrod as a wlohe."
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Martin Ryder
http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/martin.html
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