This site supports projects of Washington University in St. Louis’s Reading and Language Lab, under the direction of Prof. Rebecca Treiman of the Psychology Department in Arts & Sciences. Much of the current work is supported by a National Science Foundation Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences grant, BCS-1421279: “Preschooler’s Use of Statistical Learning to Discover Spelling and Reading Conventions Prior to Formal Schooling,” Rebecca Treiman, principal investigator, and Brett Kessler, co-principal investigator.

• Reading and Language Lab
• Prof. Rebecca Treiman
• Dr. Brett Kessler

Software

• Ponto, a tool for scoring people’s misspellings in terms of relative degrees of adherence to spelling conventions. The program can be downloaded here.
• Pontogram, a tool for scoring people’s spellings by how closely they approximate the letter and ngram frequencies in texts young children are exposed to. The program can be downloaded here.