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Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2009 Apr 20;52(3):596–609. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0004)

Table 1.

Frequency of occurrence of each CV sequence in the Hoosier Mental Lexicon (HML) for words 2–5 phonemes in length.

Length = 2		Length = 3		Length = 4		Length = 5
Sequence	Frequency	Sequence	Frequency	Sequence	Frequency	Sequence	Frequency
CV	121	CCV(*)	81	CCCV(*)	11	CCCVC(*)	75
VC	71	CVC	1,338	CCVC(*)	758	CCCVV(*)	2
VV	1	CVV	41	CCVV(*)	15	CCVCC(*)	316
		VCC	70	CVCC	942	CCVCV(*)	205
		VCV	81	CVCV	777	CCVVC(*)	22
		VVC	2	CVVC	78	CVCCC	209
				CVVV	2	CVCCV	449
				VCCC	18	CVCVC	1,146
				VCCV	83	CVCVV	89
				VCVC	209	CVVCC	31
				VCVV	11	CVVCV	29
				VVCC	1	CVVVC	1
				VVCV	1	CVVVV	2
						VCCCC	6
						VCCCV	27
						VCCVC	292
						VCCVV	9
						VCVCV	56
						VCVVC	29
						VVCCV	1
						VVCVC	4

Note. Sequences indicated with an asterisk (*) were affected by the word-initial consonant cluster (WIC) constraint in the WIC lexicon.