info-childes Digest - 08/03/03

[Aydin Y. Durgunoglu]

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. )
Aydin Durgunoglu

info-childes at mail.talkbank.org wrote:

>
>
> Subject: Question about reading
> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:22:08 -0500
> From: Benjamin Munson <munso005 at umn.edu>
>
> 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
>
> http://www.cdis.umn.edu/redbook/faculty/munson.htm
>
>

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Aydin Y. Durgunoglu
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota Duluth        phone:  (218) 726-6885
1207 Ordean Court                        fax: (218) 726-7186
Duluth, MN  55812-3010               e-mail:  adurguno at d.umn.edu

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