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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Child Psychol. 2009 Mar;102(3):323–341. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.05.008

Table 7.

Mean (and Standard Deviations) Proportion of Plausible Spellings by Children from England and the United States for CV Letter-Name Stimuli, VC Letter-Name Stimuli, and Letter-Sound Stimuli

Age group CV letter name VC letter name Letter sound
England
Younger .48 (.50) .49 (.50) .19 (.39)
Middle .75 (.43) .76 (.43) .33 (.47)
Older .86 (.35) .85 (.36) .67 (.47)

United States
Younger .06 (.24) .06 (.24) .03 (.11)
Middle .47 (.50) .47 (.50) .34 (.47)
Older .80 (.40) .79 (.41) .64 (.48)