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Recent studies suggest that performance attendant on visual word perception is affected not only by feedforward inconsistency (i.e., multiple ways to pronounce a spelling) but also by feedback inconsistency (i.e., multiple ways to spell a pronunciation). In the present study, we provide a statistical analysis of these types of inconsistency for all monosyllabic English words. This database can be used as a tool for controlling, selecting, and constructing stimulus materials for psycholinguistic and neuropsychological research. Such large-scale statistical analyses are necessary devices for developing metrics of inconsistency, for generating hypotheses for psycholinguistic experiments, and for building models of word perception, speech perception, and spelling.
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The research reported in this article was supported by a German Academic Exchange Service Grant (DAAD-Doktorandenstipendium aus Mitteln des zweiten Hochschulsonderprogramms) to J.C.Z. The authors are grateful to Rita Sloan Berndt, Marie Montant, Sarah Ransdell, and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on an earlier version of this article.
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Ziegler, J.C., Stone, G.O. & Jacobs, A.M. What is the pronunciation for -ough and the spelling for /u/? A database for computing feedforward and feedback consistency in English. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 29, 600–618 (1997). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210615
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