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2007-06-05pp.315-317

• Time Tuesday 1040-1210
• Room 8-309
• Instructor Mafuyu Kitahara
• Material Balota D. A. (1994) Visual word
  recognition in M. A. Gernsbacher (ed.) Handbook
  of Psycholinguistics, pp. 303-358, San Diego
  Academic Press.

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Getting from Letters to Words

• Letter to word central issue
• Functional unit smallest unit in
  orthography-phonology relation
• Rules spelling to sound mapping
• Simplistic way a ei, e i...
• But, not one-to-one ph f, ph,
  ck,s

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Regularities in orthography

• Venezky (1970) 20,000 mid/hi freq words
• Predictable redistributetion
• Unpredictable regular ! regular
• Invariant ff (except fv in of)
• Variable ck in cut, s in cite,
  cent...
• Henderson (1982) phonotactics
• Not permissible pb, bp first silent
• Syllabic level
• mb m.b as in amber
• mb m as in bomb
• mb m.b again as in bombard but m in
  bombing
• Position no initial ck, ts, ky, rq...

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Still Irregular

• Coltheart (1978) 10-15 irregular
• Wijk (1966) 10 irregular
• Most common 3000 words 21 irregular
• Rule-based system ...
• Desperate?
• No evidence in psychology
• May exist but NOT SUFFICIENT