Kessler, B., & Treiman, R. (2001). Relationships between sounds and letters in English monosyllables. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 592-617.
Reading and spelling consistencies were computed for onset, vowel, and coda units, over this list of words. The referenced word list gives an alignment for each word, showing how the letters and sounds were assigned to the three parts of the syllable.
Consistencies are derived from the list-internal probabilities of each letter−sound correspondence, whether conditional or unconditional. The file corr_probs gives this information for each correspondence found in each part of the word, both unconditional and conditioned by other parts of the word. These are the computations over the entire adult word list (3,117 words), by type (not weighted by word frequencies). This is a text file, which can be read by most spreadsheet programs if you tell them it is a tab-delimited in Unicode UTF-8.
| Adults | Children | |
|---|---|---|
| Distinct Vowel strings | 68 | 46 |
| At ceiling | 39 | 23 |
| Improved by Onset | 2 | 0 |
| Improved by Coda | 18 | 13 |
| Details | Details |
C = .729, improvement of 0.004 over average permuted C of .726 (p = .009)
C = .757, improvement of 0.038 over average permuted C of .729 (p = .000)
| Adults | Children | |
|---|---|---|
| Distinct Onset strings | 89 | 60 |
| At ceiling | 79 | 56 |
| Improved by Vowel | 1 | 0 |
| Improved by Coda | 0 | 0 |
| Details | Details |
| Adults | Children | |
|---|---|---|
| Distinct Coda strings | 145 | 65 |
| At ceiling | 137 | 61 |
| Improved by Onset | 0 | 0 |
| Improved by Vowel | 2 | 0 |
| Details | Details |
| Adults | Children | |
|---|---|---|
| Distinct Vowel strings | 15 | 15 |
| At ceiling | 0 | 0 |
| Improved by Onset | 4 | 1 |
| Improved by Coda | 13 | 13 |
| Details | Details |
C = .540, improvement of 0.007 over average permuted C of .536 (p = .000)
C = .596, improvement of 0.112 over average permuted C of .536 (p = .000)
| Adults | Children | |
|---|---|---|
| Distinct Onset strings | 63 | 50 |
| At ceiling | 41 | 39 |
| Improved by Vowel | 6 | 1 |
| Improved by Coda | 0 | 0 |
| Details | Details |
| Adults | Children | |
|---|---|---|
| Distinct Coda strings | 93 | 52 |
| At ceiling | 58 | 40 |
| Improved by Onset | 1 | 1 |
| Improved by Vowel | 13 | 4 |
| Details | Details |
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