WHAT IS THE PRONUNCIATION FOR -OUGH AND THE SPELLING FOR VERTICAL-BAR-U-VERTICAL-BAR - A DATABASE FOR COMPUTING FEEDFORWARD AND FEEDBACK CONSISTENCY IN ENGLISH

Recent studies suggest that performance attendant on visual word perce ption is affected not only by feedforward inconsistency (i.e., multipl e ways to pronounce a spelling) but also by feedback inconsistency (i. e., multiple ways to spell a pronunciation). Tn 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 c ontrolling, selecting, and constructing stimulus materials for psychol inguistic and neuropsychological research. Such large-scale statistica l analyses are necessary devices for developing metrics of inconsisten cy, for generating hypotheses for psycholinguistic experiments, and fo r building models of word perception, speech perception, and spelling.