Abstract
Recent studies suggest that performance attendant on visual word perception is affected not only by the "traditional" feedforward inconsistency (spelling → phonology) but also by its feedback inconsistency (phonology → spelling). The present study presents a statistical analysis of the bidirectional inconsistency for all French monosyllabic words. We show that French is relatively consistent from spelling to phonology but highly inconsistent from phonology to spelling. Appendixes B and C list prior and conditional probabilities for all inconsistent mappings and thus provide a valuable tool for controlling, selecting, and constructing stimulus materials for psycholinguistic and neuropsychological research. Such large-scale statistical analyses about a language's structure are crucial for developing metrics of inconsistency, generating hypotheses for cross-linguistic research, and building computational models of reading.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 504-515 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1996 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Psychology (miscellaneous)
- General Psychology