pal (07/29/82)
The following is taken from an article by John Theios and Gerard Muise in
"Cognitive Theory", edited by Castellan, Pisoni and Potts (detailed reference
available on request).
"The important question for us to answer is, `How much can reading speed
be slowed down by a totally incorrect spelling?'"
[...]
"... we conducted an experiment in which readers were presented with a
sequence of words and pseudowords, in which for each word, there was a yoked
pseudoword which was homophonic to the word, but which was spelled differently
and in fact was NOT a word in the English language."
[...]
"There were 12 readers, all college students, and 100 monosyllabic
word-pseudoword pairs ..."
[...]
"The effect apparently is real; nonstandard spelling slows down the reading
of individual words by about 20-30 msec, even if phonology is held constant."
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The prosecution hereby charges rvpalliende with gross waste of people's
time, and seeks damages in the amount of 20 msec for each "ov" in his
articles, to be paid to each reader of this newsgroup.
Anil A. Pal, plaintiff
pal@uwisc or harpo!uwvax!pal