Contents

1. Introduction
   • Language and Learning
   • Previous Reviews on These Topics
   • A Call for Theory
   • And Yet Another Literature Review
   • Overview of the Report
2. The Developmental Model of Auding and Reading
3. The Languaging Process
   • The Nature of the Conceptual Base
   • The Acquisition of the Conceptual Base
   • The Acquisition of Languaging Ability
     • The Phonological System
     • Semantics: Individual Words as Holophrases
     • Semantics: Meanings of Individual Words
     • Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge
4. The Development of Listening/Looking and Auding/Reading Processes
   • Hearing and Seeing: The Continuity of Organismic and Environmental Information
   • The Memory System
   • The Development of Looking and Listening as Attentive Processes
   • Auding as Listening
   • Auding as Languaging
   • Auding as a Tracking Task
   • Reading as Looking
   • Reading as Languaging
   • Auding and Reading Compared
5. A Review of Literature Related to Four Hypotheses Derived From the Model
   • Hypothesis 1
   • Hypothesis 2
   • Hypothesis 3
   • Hypothesis 4
6. Summary and Implications
   • Review of the Hypotheses
   • Some Accomplishments and Limitations of the Modeling Effort
   • Implications