Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117570, Singapore.
Behav Res Methods. 2020 Dec;52(6):2535-2555. doi: 10.3758/s13428-020-01391-7.
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.
一致性反映了拼写和发音之间的映射关系。也就是说，如果一个单词的发音与拼写相似的单词的发音相匹配，那么它就是前馈一致的，如果它的拼写与发音相似的单词的拼写相匹配，那么它就是反馈一致的。对于英语这样的准规则语言，一致性效应对词汇处理的研究受到缺乏易于获取的规范的限制。为了改进当前的方法学资源，计算了 37677 个英语单词的前馈（拼写-发音）和反馈（发音-拼写）一致性度量。这里开发的一致性度量是针对多音节词的组合水平进行操作的，对于单音节词和多音节词，还针对不同的亚音节段（起音、核心、韵尾、核和韵）进行操作。这些度量构成了最大的英语一致性规范数据库，将成为研究人员探索一致性对词汇处理（如单词识别和拼写）的影响的宝贵资源。这些规范可作为本文的补充材料使用。
