Question about reading

[Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith]

try Usha Goswami at Cambridge University.

At 11:22 -0500 3/8/03, Benjamin Munson wrote:
>Dear Info-Childes:
>
>Apologies in advance for posing a somewhat off-topic question.  This
>question is really for people who do early literacy research more
>than for people who do oral/aural manual/visual language development.
>
>This question relates to sound-spelling correspondence regularity.
>I am doing a word-reading experiment looking at relationships
>between word frequency, neighbo(u)rhood density, and vowel
>articulation.  I'm planning on doing an analysis by items in which I
>will examine whether regularity of sound-spelling correspondence
>predicts some of my dependent measures.  What I need is to calculate
>regularity of sound-spelling correspondence for individual items as
>a continuous variable.  That is, I need to be able to say that the
>relationship between "through" and /Tru/ is 0.8; between "known" and
>/non/ is 2.3; and between rope and /rop/ is 5.6.  (I'm making these
>up, although the numbers are monotonically related to my
>intuitions.)  Does anyone know of such a measure of sound-spelling
>correspondence regularity?  I have done searches on PsychInfo, but
>they have come up with nothing.  Perhaps I'm using the wrong search
>terms.
>
>I will post a summary.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Yours,
>Ben Munson
>
>
>Benjamin Munson, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor
>Department of Communication Disorders
>University of Minnesota
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