Grapheme-phoneme probabilities in British English

P. F D Gontijo; I. Gontijo; R. Shillcock

Grapheme-phoneme probabilities in British English

P. F D Gontijo
, I. Gontijo
, R. Shillcock

School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

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Abstract

A computational analysis of a large British English database was performed and frequencies of occurrence of grapheme-phoneme correspondences were obtained. A computer program was implemented, which used these frequencies to predict the probabilities of all possible pronunciations of any given string of graphemes. These results led to a proposal for a quantitative method of measurement of the orthographic depth of different languages.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	136-157
Number of pages	22
Journal	Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers
Volume	35
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - Feb 2003

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