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During the last 20 years, psycholinguistic research has identified many variables that influence reading and spelling processes. We describe a new computerized lexical database, LEXOP, which provides quantitative descriptors about the relations between orthography and phonology for French monosyllabic words. Three main classes of variables are considered: consistency of print-to-sound and sound-to-print associations, frequency of orthography-phonology correspondences, and word neighborhood characteristics.
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This work was supported by the French CNRS, by a grant from the Direction générale de la Recherche scientifique-Communauté française de Belgique (A.R.C. Grant 96/01-203), and by a joint French-Belgian grant for scientific exchanges (Programme Tournesol).
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Peereman, R., Content, A. LEXOP: A lexical database providing orthography-phonology statistics for French monosyllabic words. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 31, 376–379 (1999). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207735
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