I am an Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology. Currently I am acting as a Senior Research Scientist working on the acquisition of writing and reading with Rebecca Treiman in the Reading and Language Lab in the Psychological & Brain Sciences Department at Washington University in St. Louis. This work is supported by the NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as project 5R01HD102346-03, “Learning statistical orthographic patterns in disyllabic English words and using them in reading and spelling.” I am interested in computational and statistical approaches to language, particularly in the fields of phonology, historical linguistics, and the lexicon. My PhD dissertation in the Stanford Department of Linguistics explored how to statistically test the historical connections between languages. A few more specifics below and in my CV. ORCID: 0000-0001-5759-0193 Email: at wustl.edu: bkessler WWW: http://spell.psychology.wustl.edu/bkessler.html Picture: Official Psychology Department photo Greetings: Courtesy of Dudley’s Voder. My papers and projects 2023. Altmiller, Ruth & Treiman, Rebeccca & Kessler, Brett. Double trouble: Using spellings of different lengths to represent vowel length in English. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 231, Article 105649. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105649 ; data and programs: OSF.) 2023. Leben, William R. & Kessler, Brett & Denning, Keith. English vocabulary elements: A course in the structure of English words, 3rd ed. Oxford University Press. (https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190925475.001.0001) 2023. Treiman, Rebeccca & Kessler, Brett. Spelling-to-sound translation for English disyllables: Use of long and short vowels before single medial consonants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001260 ; data and programs: OSF. 2023. Treiman, Rebeccca & Kessler, Brett & Hensley, Kayla. Number and syllabification of following consonants influence use of long versus short vowels in English disyllables. Journal of Memory and Language, 129, Article 104399. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2022.104399 ; data and programs: OSF.) 2023, July 20–22. Hensley, Kayla & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Impacts of onset and coda length on stress assignment when reading aloud [Poster presentation]. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference, Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia. 2023, July 20–22. Homer, Jayde & Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Making sense of nonsense: How U.S. preschoolers’ spellings reflect their own names, letter names, and phonological segmentation [Paper presentation]. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference, Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia. 2022. Treiman, Rebeccca & Kessler, Brett. Statistical learning in word reading and spelling across languages and writing systems. Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022(2), 139–149. (https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2021.1920951) 2022. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Pollo, Tatiana Cury. Prephonological spelling and its connections with later word reading and spelling performance. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 218, Article 105359. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105359 ; data and programs: OSF.) 2021. Treiman, Rebecca & Wolter, Sloane & Kessler, Brett. How sensitive are adults to the role of morphology in spelling? Morphology, 31(3), 261–271. (Data and programs: OSF.) 2020. Treiman, Rebecca & Rosales, Nicole & Cusner, Lauren & Kessler, Brett. Cues to stress in English spelling. Journal of Memory and Language, 112. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104089; data and programs: OSF.) 2019. Treiman, Rebecca & Caravolas, Markéta & Kessler, Brett. What methods of scoring young children’s spelling best predict later spelling performance? Journal of Research in Reading. (https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12241) 2019. Treiman, Rebecca & Cardoso-Martins, Cláudia & Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Kessler, Brett. Statistical learning and spelling: Evidence from Brazilian prephonological spellers. Cognition 182. 1–7. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.016; data and programs: OSF). 2019. Treiman, Rebecca & Decker, Kristina & Kessler, Brett. Adults’ sensitivity to graphotactic differences within the English vocabulary. Applied Psycholinguistics 40(1). 167–182. (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716418000516 ; data and programs: OSF) 2019. Treiman, Rebecca & Hulslander, Jacqueline & Olson, Richard K. & Willcutt, Erik G. & Byrne, Brian & Kessler, Brett. The unique role of early spelling in the prediction of later literacy performance. Scientific Studies of Reading. 23(5). 437–444. (https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2019.1573242) 2019. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Development of context-sensitive pronunciation in reading: The case of ‹c› and ‹g›. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 182. 114–125. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.02.001; data and programs: OSF) 2018. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Boland, Kelly & Clocksin, Hayley & Chen, Zhengdao. Statistical learning and spelling: Older prephonological spellers produce more wordlike spellings than younger prephonological spellers. Child Development 89(4). e431–e443. (https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12893) 2017. Lyovin, Anatole V. & Kessler, Brett & Leben, William R. An introduction to the languages of the world. 2nd edn. New York: Oxford University Press. (ISBN 9780195149883) 2016. Caravolas, Markéta & Kessler, Brett. Spelling development in alphabetic orthographies of varying consistency: Measurement matters. (Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Porto, 2016 July 13–16.) 2016. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Choosing between alternative spellings of sounds: The role of context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 42(7). 1154–1159. (https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000225) 2016. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Decker, Kristina & Pollo, Tatiana Cury. How do prephonological writers link written words to their objects? Cognitive Development 38. 89–98. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2016.02.002) 2016. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Byrne, Brian & Olson, Richard K. Measures of kindergarten spelling and their relations to later spelling performance. Scientific Studies of Reading, 20(5). 349–362. (https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2016.1186168) 2016. Treiman, Rebecca & Rosales, Nicole & Kessler, Brett. Characteristics of print in books for preschool children. Writing Systems Research 8(1). 120–132. (https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2015.1074058) 2015. Kemp, Nenagh & Treiman, Rebecca & Blackley, Hollie & Svoboda, Imogen & Kessler, Brett. Lexical classification and spelling: Do people use atypical spellings for atypical pseudowords? Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal 28(8). 1187–1202. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-015-9567-y) 2015. Kessler, Brett. Computational and quantitative approaches to historical phonology. In Honeybone, Patrick & Salmons, Joseph (eds.), The Oxford handbook of historical phonology, 133–148. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232819.013.030) 2015. Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Writing systems: Their properties and implications for reading. In Pollatsek, Alexander & Treiman, Rebecca (eds.), The Oxford handbook of reading, 10–25 Oxford: Oxford University Press. (https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199324576.013.1) 2015. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Uma revisão crítica de três perspectivas sobre o desenvolvimento da escrita = A critical review of three perspectives in spelling development. Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) 32(3). 449–459. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0103-166X2015000300010) 2015. Treiman, Rebecca & Decker, Kristina & Kessler, Brett & Pollo, Tatiana Cury. Variation and repetition in the spelling of young children. (Abstract of paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Hawaiʻi County, 15–18 July 2015.) (http://spell.psychology.wustl.edu/SSSR2015) 2015. Treiman, Rebecca & Decker, Kristina & Kessler, Brett & Pollo, Tatiana Cury. Variation and repetition in the spelling of young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 132. 99–110. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.12.008) 2015. Treiman, Rebecca & Seidenberg, Mark S. & Kessler, Brett. Influences on spelling: Evidence from homophones. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 30(5). 544–554. (https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2014.952315) 2014. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. How children learn to write words. New York: Oxford University Press. (ISBN 9780199907977) 2014. Treiman, Rebecca & Mulqueeny, Kevin & Kessler, Brett. Young children’s knowledge about the spatial layout of writing. Writing Systems Research 7(2). 235–244 (https://doi.org/dr5c) 2013. Kessler, Brett & Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Treiman, Rebecca & Cardoso-Martins, Cláudia. Frequency analyses of prephonological spellings as predictors of success in conventional spelling. Journal of Learning Disabilities 46(3). 252–259. (https://doi.org/10.1177/0022219412449440) 2013. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Learning to use an alphabetic writing system. Language Learning and Development 9(4). 317–330. (https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2013.812016) 2013. Treiman, Rebecca & Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Cardoso-Martins, Cláudia & Brett Kessler. Do young children spell words syllabically? Evidence from learners of Brazilian Portuguese. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 116(4). 873–890. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2013.08.002) 2012, July. Kemp, Nenagh & Blackley, Hollie & Cure, Imogen & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Spelling pseudowords: The effects of task instructions and wordlikeness. Abstract of paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Montréal. 2012, July. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Cardoso-Martins, Cláudia & Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. The structure of prephonological writing as an indicator of later spelling success. Abstract of paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Montréal. 2012. Treiman, Rebecca & Levin, Iris & Kessler, Brett. Linking the shapes of alphabet letters to their sounds: The case of Hebrew. Reading and Writing 25(2). 569–585. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-010-9286-3) 2011. Hayes, Heather & Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Spelling of deaf children who use cochlear implants. Scientific Studies of Reading 15(6). 522–540. (https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2010.528480) 2011. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Similarities among the shapes of writing and their effects on learning. Written Language and Literacy 14(1). 39–57. (https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.14.1.03tre) 2011, July. Kemp, Nenagh & Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Adults’ spelling of doubled consonants in pseudowords. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), St. Pete Beach. 2011, July. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Cardoso-Martins, Cláudia & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. A longitudinal evaluation of the syllabic spelling hypothesis in Portuguese. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), St. Pete Beach. 2011. Kessler, Brett. Language families. In Hogan, Patrick Colm (ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences, 414–417. New York: Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 9781107475908) 2010, July. Kessler, Brett & Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Treiman, Rebecca, & Byrne, Brian & Olson, Richard K. 2010, July. Predicting spelling accuracy to Grade 2 by computer analysis of erroneous spellings in kindergarten. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Berlin. 2010, July. Pollo, Tatiana Cury, & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Rosenzweig, Emily. Children’s initial spelling strategies: ‘Bear’ is not bigger than ‘mosquito’. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Berlin. (http://spell.psychology.wustl.edu/PolloSSSR2010) 2009, June. Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Learning about the role of context in spelling-to-sound translation: The case of initial ‹c› and ‹g› in English. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Boston. 2009, June. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Do children’s prephonological writing patterns predict later spelling performance? Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Boston. 2009, June. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Caravolas, Markéta. Children’s knowledge about the shapes of Latin letters. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Boston. 2009. Ellefson, Michelle R. & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Learning to label letters by sounds or names: A comparison of England and the United States. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 102(3). 323–341. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2008.05.008) 2009. Kessler, Brett. Statistical learning of conditional orthographic correspondences. Writing Systems Research 1(1). 19–34. (https://doi.org/10.1093/wsr/wsp004) 2009. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Statistical patterns in children’s early writing. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 104. 410–426. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2009.07.003) 2008, July. Pollo, Tatiana Cury, & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. The nature of young children’s nonphonological spellings. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Asheville. 2008. Kessler, Brett. The mathematical assessment of long-range linguistic relationships. Language and Linguistics Compass 2(5). 821–839. (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00083.x) 2008. Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca & Mullennix, John. Feedback-consistency effects in single-word reading. In Grigorenko, Elena L. & Naples, Adam J. (eds.), Single-word reading: Behavioral and biological perspectives, 159−174. New York: Erlbaum. 2008. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Preschoolers use partial letter names to select spellings: Evidence from Portuguese. Applied Psycholinguistics 29(2). 195–212. (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716407080095) 2008. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Three perspectives on spelling development. In Grigorenko, Elena L. & Naples, Adam J. (eds.), Single-word reading: Behavioral and biological perspectives, 175−189. New York: Erlbaum. 2007, October. Garabík, Radovan & Caravolas, Markéta & Kessler, Brett & Höflerová, Eva & Masterson, Jackie & Mikulajová, Marína & Szczerbiński, Marcin & Wierzchoń, Piotr. A cross-linguistic database of children’s printed words in three Slavic languages. In Levická, Jana & Garabík, Radovan (eds.), Computer Treatment of Slavic and East European Languages: Fourth International Seminar, Bratislava, Slovakia, 25−27 October 2007: Proceedings, 51−64. Bratislava: Tribun, 2007. 2007, July. Kessler, Brett. Better than chance? Randomization models for evaluating whether lexical similarity implies historical connection. Paper presented at the Workshop on Alternative Approaches to Language Classification, Stanford. 2007, June. Kessler, Brett. Word similarity metrics and multilateral comparison. In Nerbonne, John & Ellison, Mark T. & Kondrak, Grzegorz (eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology (SIGMORPHON), Prague, 6–14. Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics. 2007, March. Ellefson, Michelle R. & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Learning to label letters by names or sounds. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Boston. 2007. Denning, Keith & Kessler, Brett & Leben, William R. English vocabulary elements, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. (ISBN 9780195168020) 2007. Kessler, Brett. [Review of McMahon, April & McMahon, Robert, Language classification by numbers (ISBN 9780199279029)]. Anthropological Linguistics 49(3–4). 435–438. 2007. Treiman, Rebecca & Cohen, Jeremy & Mulqueeny, Kevin & Kessler, Brett & Schechtman, Suzanne. Young children’s knowledge about printed names. Child Development 78(5). 1458−1471. (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01077.x) 2007. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Learning to read. In Gaskell, M. Gareth (ed.), The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics, 657−666. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198568971.013.0040) 2007. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Evans, Rochelle. Anticipatory conditioning of spelling-to-sound translation. Journal of Memory and Language 56(2). 229−245. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2006.06.001) 2007. Treiman, Rebecca & Levin, Iris & Kessler, Brett. Learning of letter names follows similar principles across languages: Evidence from Hebrew. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 96. 87−106. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2006.08.002) 2006, July. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. How do preschoolers use letter names to select spellings? Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Vancouver. 2006, July. Treiman, Rebecca & Cohen, Jeremy & Mulqueeny, Kevin & Kessler, Brett & Schechtman, Suzanne. Young children’s knowledge about printed names. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Vancouver. 2006. Ashby, Jane & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Rayner, Keith. Vowel processing during silent reading: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 32(2). 416–424. (https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.32.2.416) 2006. Bourassa, Derrick C. & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Use of morphology in spelling by children with dyslexia and typically developing children. Memory & Cognition 34(3). 703–714. (https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193589) 2006. Hayes, Heather & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Children use vowels to help them spell consonants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 94(1). 27–42. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2005.11.001) 2006. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Spelling as statistical learning: Using consonantal context to spell vowels. Journal of Educational Psychology 98(3). 642–652. (https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.98.3.642) 2006. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Pollo, Tatiana Cury. Learning about the letter name subset of the vocabulary: Evidence from U.S. and Brazilian preschoolers. Applied Psycholinguistics 27(2). 211–227. (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716406060255) 2006. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Zevin, Jason D. & Bick, Suzanne & Davis, Melissa. Influence of consonantal context on the reading of vowels: Evidence from children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 93(1). 1–24. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2005.06.008) 2005, November. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Long-distance anticipatory effects in spelling-to-sound translation. Paper presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto. 2005, July. Bourassa, Derrick C. & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Use of morphology in spelling by children with dyslexia and typically developing children. Poster presented at the meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Montréal. 2005, June. Hayes, Heather & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Children use vowels to help them spell consonants. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Toronto. 2005, June. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Beginning spellers exploit inexact letter-name matches. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Toronto. 2005, April. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Pollo, Tatiana Cury. U.S. and Brazilian preschoolers’ knowledge of letter names: Variability across letters, languages, and children. Paper presented at the symposium Cross-cultural Approaches to Language and Literacy Development, conducted at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Atlanta. 2005. Caravolas, Markéta & Kessler, Brett & Hulme, Charles & Snowling, Margaret. Effects of orthographic consistency, frequency, and letter knowledge on children’s vowel spelling development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 92(4). 307–321. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2005.08.001) 2005. Cassar, Marie & Treiman, Rebecca & Moats, Louisa & Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Kessler, Brett. How do the spellings of children with dyslexia compare with those of nondyslexic children? Reading and Writing 18(1). 27–49. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-004-2345-x) 2005. Hayes, Heather & Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. English spelling: Making sense of a seemingly chaotic writing system. The International Dyslexia Association Perspectives on Language and Literacy 31(3). 8–10. 2005. Kessler, Brett. Phonetic comparison algorithms. Transactions of the Philological Society 103(2). 243–260. (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968X.2005.00153.x) 2005. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Vowels, syllables, and letter names: Differences between young children’s spelling in English and Portuguese. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 92(2). 161–181. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2005.01.006) 2005. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Writing systems and spelling development. In Snowling, Margaret J. & Hulme, Charles (eds.), The Science of reading: A handbook, 120–134. Oxford: Blackwell. (ISBN 9781405114882) 2004, July. Caravolas, Markéta & Snowling, Margaret J. & Hulme, Charles & Kessler, Brett. How orthographic consistency affects the development of spelling skills in English: Implications for theories of orthographic learning. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Amsterdam. 2004, July. Kessler, Brett & Lehtonen, Annukka. Multilateral comparison and significance testing of the Indo-Uralic question. In Forster, Peter & Renfrew, Colin (eds.), Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages, 33–42. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. (ISBN 9781902937335) 2004, June. Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Sensitivity to statistical contextual patterns when spelling consonants in English. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Amsterdam. 2004, June. Pollo, Tatiana Cury & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. Influence of writing systems on young children’s spelling in English and Portuguese. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Amsterdam. 2004, June. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. The case of case: Children’s knowledge and use of upper- and lower-case letters. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Amsterdam. 2004. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. The case of case: Children’s knowledge and use of upper- and lowercase letters. Applied Psycholinguistics 25(3). 413–428. (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716404001195) 2003, November. Ashby, Jane & Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Rayner, Keith. Parafoveal processing of vowel contexts: Evidence from eye movements. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver. 2003. Kessler, Brett. [Review of Renfrew, Colin & McMahon, April & Trask, Larry (eds.), Time depth in historical linguistics]. Diachronica 20(2). 375–379. (https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.20.2.11kes) 2003. Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Is English spelling chaotic? Misconceptions concerning its irregularity. Reading Psychology 24(3–4). 267–289. (https://doi.org/10.1080/02702710390227228) 2003. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett. The role of letter names in the acquisition of literacy. In Kail, Robert V. (ed.), Advances in child development and behavior, 31, 105–135. San Diego: Academic Press. (ISBN 9780120097319) 2003. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Bick, Suzanne. Influence of consonantal context on the pronunciation of vowels: A comparison of human readers and computational models. Cognition 88(1). 49–78. (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00003-9). 2002, June. Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca & Bick, Suzanne. Use by skilled spellers of context-sensitive patterns: Onsets and codas constrain the spelling of English vowels. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Chicago. 2002. Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca & Mullennix, John. Phonetic biases in voice key response time measurements. Journal of Memory and Language 47(1). 145–171. (https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.2001.2835) 2002. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Bick, Suzanne. Context sensitivity in the spelling of English vowels. Journal of Memory and Language 47(3). 448–468. (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00010-4) 2001. Kessler, Brett. The significance of word lists: Statistical tests for investigating historical connections between languages. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (ISBN 9781575863009) 2001. Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Relations between sounds and letters in English monosyllables. Journal of Memory and Language 44(4). 592–617. (https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.2000.2745) 2001. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Bourassa, Derrick. Children’s own names influence their spelling. Applied Psycholinguistics 22(4). 555–570. (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716401004040) 2000. Treiman, Rebecca & Kessler, Brett & Knewasser, Stephanie & Tincoff, Ruth & Bowman, Margo. English speakers’ sensitivity to phonotactic patterns. In Broe, Michael B. & Pierrehumbert, Janet B. (eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology V: Acquisition and the Lexicon, 269–282. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 9780521643634) 1999. Nunberg, Geoffrey D. & Pedersen, Jan O. & Schütze, Hinrich & Kessler, Brett & Grefenstette, Gregory. Text genre identification. European Patent EP 0 889 417. London: European Patent Office. 1997, July. Kessler, Brett & Nunberg, Geoffrey & Schütze, Hinrich. Automatic detection of text genre. In 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the conference, 7–12 July, Madrid, 32–38. [San Francisco]: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9707002) 1997. Kessler, Brett & Treiman, Rebecca. Syllable structure and the distribution of phonemes in English syllables. Journal of Memory and Language 37(3). 295–311. (https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1997.2522) 1995, March. Kessler, Brett. Computational dialectology in Irish Gaelic. In Proceedings of the seventh conference of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 60–66. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cmp-lg/9503002) 1993, April. Kessler, Brett. Sandhi and syllables in Classical Sanskrit. In Duncan, Eric & Farkas, Donka & Spaelti, Philip (eds.), The proceedings of the Twelfth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 35–50. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (ISBN 9781881526339) 1992. Kessler, Brett. A spelling corrector for English based on knowledge of sound-spelling correspondence. Paper presented at SRI International, Menlo Park. Ambisyllabicity in the language of the Rigveda. External sandhi in Classical Sanskrit. (AM thesis). Includes a computer-verified rule set and program for modeling the sandhi at word boundaries in Sanskrit. Discontinuous constituents in Latin. Subjects of imperatives. On the phonological nature of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals. A spelling corrector incorporating knowledge of English orthography and pronunciation. Regularity in the phonemic subsystem of English spelling: A study of the monosyllables. Generic taxa in Hawaiian. Programs and data files A batch Java program for multilateral comparison to demonstrate historical connections between languages. Includes Swadesh lists for 15 languages. A C program for phonological transformations, with a rule set applying the program to the derivation of surface sandhi forms from underlying Sanskrit representations. CondCons, a C- and Perl-based system for computing conditional consistencies in letter-sound correspondences for monosyllables. AMPR, an automated test instrument in Perl for evaluating the phonological plausibility of young children's spellings. Comparanda used in my dissertation: Swadesh 200 words in Albanian, English, French, German, Hawaiian, Latin, Navajo and Turkish. Data files in support of our paper in Laboratory Phonology V. The Old Saxon Heliand, with some lexical statistics. Derive: Code for testing a suite of diachronic sound changes, and an application deriving Proto-Germanic sounds from Proto-Indo-European.