Word sounds. I can not read without hearing the word. (Now I wonder about those born deaf.) Based on that subjective experience which I presume is rather universal among the hearing, tokenized phones and phonemes seem promising.
I'm also a whole word reader, it is IMHO generally faster than needing to mentally hear words.
Makes reading sci-fi with funky alien names much easier! :D
Also, non phonetic writing systems will push you towards not hearing while reading. For example, when I read chinese there are plenty of characters (hanzi) whose pronunciation I don't know (was it hai? Pai?), but I remember the meaning just fine.
Even with English (I'm not a native speaker) sometimes I won't remember how to pronounce a certain word, but I'll read it just fine.
Makes sense. I also tried an earlier suggestion to (effectively speed) read and that seems to send constant interrupts to the speech center -- which is how I am beginning to imagine how it works -- and it struggles to keep up and very soon becomes silent. atm still prefer my apparently pedestrian reading mode as it has a strong 'pleasure of reading' aspect that as of now I do not get when attempting whole word parsing.
How do you experience the pleasure of reading? For me, the reconstructed voice of the author and in general the (for the lack of a better word) musical aesthetics of the 'text' are significant.
Curious: What's your favorite piece of poetry?
I very much like Emily Dickinson, why? (What's your favorite piece of poetry?)
I do not hear words as I read. (As I write I do)