Si on conserve les articles, les négations et les prépositions, les mots qui se trouvent dans le texte proposé par Kokoyaya pourraient être réduits sans gêner la compréhension.
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Adrian Doff:les mécanismes naturels de la lecture:
When we read for meaning, we do not need to read every letter or every word nor even every word in each sentence. This is because provided the text makes sense, we can guess much of what it says as we read it.
A m__ was walk____ d___wn the s____t, c__rr__ng a gr_n ______
Even though more than half the letters were missing, you could probably read the sentence wiyhout difficulty, and even guess the last word without the help of any letters. You may also have noticed that as soon as you guessed the second word, it helped you to guess the whole of the first part of the sentence;if you are reding connected sentences in a text, each sentence helps you to guess what the next one will be and so on through the whole text. Reading is an active process. When we read we draw on our own knowledge of the word and of language to help us guess what the text will say next. It is only if we are reading a series of words that makes no sense at all, such as: "Man walking elephant the onto reading to help" that we have to slow down and read every single word, as we can no longer make guesses.
