How predictable is spelling? developing and testing metrics of phoneme-grapheme contingency

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 897-915

  Perry, Conrad ^a,b   Ziegler, Johannes C ^a,c   Coltheart, Max ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHONETICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0036635650     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980143000640     Document Type: Article

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