When Readers Use the Direct-Access Route to Recognizing Written Words

When readers use the direct-access route to recognizing written words,

A) they learn to distinguish between a letter's distinctive features and its characteristic sound.
B) they translate the visual stimuli into sound before locating a word's meaning.
C) they recognize each word's syntactic function before they recognize its meaning.
D) they recognize a word from the visual stimulus without having to translate first into sound.