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- Title
Consistency norms for 37,677 english words.
- Authors
Chee, Qian Wen; Chow, Keng Ji; Yap, Melvin J.; Goh, Winston D.
- Abstract
Consistency reflects the mapping between spelling and sound. That is, a word is feedforward consistent if its pronunciation matches that of similarly spelled words, and feedback consistent if its spelling matches that of similar pronounced words. For a quasi-regular language such as English, the study of consistency effects on lexical processing has been limited by the lack of readily accessible norms. In order to improve current methodological resources, feedforward (spelling-to-sound) and feedback (sound-to-spelling) consistency measures for 37,677 English words were computed. The consistency measures developed here are operationalized at the composite level for multisyllabic words, and at different sub-syllabic segments (onset, nucleus, coda, oncleus, and rime) for both monosyllabic and multisyllabic words. These measures constitute the largest database of English consistency norms to be developed, and will be a valuable resource for researchers to explore the effects of consistency on lexical processes, such as word recognition and spelling. The norms are available as supplementary material with this paper.
- Subjects
WORD recognition; ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling; VOCABULARY; ENGLISH language; RHYME
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2020, Vol 52, Issue 6, p2535
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13428-020-01391-7