Question about reading

[Ann Dowker]

Other possible useful sources of information include Philip Seymour of
the University of Dundee; Gordon Brown of the University of Warwick; and
Heinz Wimmer of the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Ann

In message <p05100317bb52438cb239@[212.126.146.100]> Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith <a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> 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
> >
> >