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A comprehensive count of bigram frequencies and versatilities by position was tabulated for two- through nine-letter words recorded by Kucera and Francis (1967). A total of 577 bigrams were found variously distributed throughout words. Such counts should prove useful to workers who wish to determine the orthographic regularity of specific words.
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Juel, C. L., & Solso, R. L.Effects of orthographic and phonetic structures on word identification. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 1979.
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The authors express their appreciation to Karen K. Falke for her assistance in writing the computer program.
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Solso, R.L., Juel, C.L. Positional frequency and versatility of bigrams for two- through nine-letter English words. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation 12, 297–343 (1980). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03201669
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