Abstract
Simuread is a computer program which segments traditional English orthography into minimum graphic signals and designates a segmental phoneme, non phoneme, or phoneme combination for each. The segmental phoneme chains required for the oral representation of the orthography are simulated in numeric output.
The program also derives a conditional association matrix. The rows of the matrix are the minimum graphic signals and the columns are the phoneme designates. The row totals and the percentages of specific graphic-phoneme associations are computed for the cells of the matrix.
Samples of Simuread processing of various texts, a portion of a conditional association matrix and comparisons of the total occurrences of the graphic units in several first grade readers are presented in this article to illustrate its research applications.