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This paper' aims to find out the psychological reality of grapheme-phoneme correspondences in English. It is hypothesized that first, such correspondences vary from phoneme to phoneme and for some, there may be a basic form and some allographic forms. Secondly, the more basic grapheme can be elicited by using nonsense sound sequences and the allographic forms, by using sound sequences that are very like real English words. The experiment was performed on thirty-five undergraduates at the University of Pittsburgh, Penn sylvania, USA. The results are largely in support of the hypotheses and have implications for the analysis of spelling errors, the teaching of reading, general phonological research and the construction of a model for processing.

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The Psychological Reality of Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences in English

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