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<br>M.L. Stanback has a 1991 Columbia dissertation listing the rime frequencies
of many neighborhoods. I think it can be used to compute the kind
of information that you are looking for. I can loan you my copy of
the dissertation (and send it via our common acquantaince Molly
Babel. )
<br>Aydin Durgunoglu
<p>info-childes@mail.talkbank.org wrote:
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<p><nobr><b>Subject: </b>Question about reading</nobr>
<br><nobr><b>Date: </b>Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:22:08 -0500</nobr>
<br><nobr><b>From: </b>Benjamin Munson <munso005@umn.edu></nobr>
<pre WRAP>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
115 Shevlin Hall
164 Pillsbury Drive, SE
Minnapolis, MN 55455
(612) 624-0304
Fax: (612) 624-7586
<a href="http://www.cdis.umn.edu/redbook/faculty/munson.htm">http://www.cdis.umn.edu/redbook/faculty/munson.htm</a>
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<br>Aydin Y. Durgunoglu
<br>Department of Psychology
<br>University of Minnesota Duluth
phone: (218) 726-6885
<br>1207 Ordean Court
fax: (218) 726-7186
<br>Duluth, MN 55812-3010
e-mail: adurguno@d.umn.edu
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