Table 2.
Characteristics of target nonwords.
| Homophone pairs (second syllable) | Transcription | High density spelling | Low density spelling | Number of phonological neighbors | Number of orthographic neighbors for high density spelling | Number of orthographic neighbors for low density spelling | positional segment frequency | Biphone probability of medial consonants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| “strait/straight” | /fispet/ | “feespait” | “feespaight” | 34 | 15 | 1 | 0.1796 | .0081 |
| “peek/pique” | /mʌnfik/ | “munfeek” | “munfique” | 20 | 6 | 1 | 0.1318 | .0022 |
| “ate/eight” | /bɑɪ nvet/ | “binevate” | “bineveight” | 19 | 12 | 1 | 0.1176 | .0113 |
| “loot/lute” | /pʌlvut/ | “pulvoot” | “pulvute” | 26 | 18 | 9 | 0.1305 | .0015 |
| “cash/cache” | /fʌlvæʃ/ | “fulvash” | “fulvache” | 15 | 12 | 2 | 0.1096 | .0015 |
| “side/sighed” | /bispɑ ɪd/ | “beespide” | “beespighed” | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0.1566 | .0081 |