Sentence examples similar to irregular correspondence from inspiring English sources
The 5 reading conditions were: 1) real English words with regular/typical spelling-to-sound correspondences (e.g., FACTOR); 2) real English words with irregular spelling-to-sound correspondences (e.g., SWORD); 3) Italian translation of the English regular words; 4) Italian translation of the English irregular words; 5) pseudowords (see appendix for full list of stimuli).
Jon L. Lellenberg, a Pentagon official, is completing a history of the Irregulars, packed with insider correspondence, that has implausibly grown into five thick paperback volumes bound in scarlet.
From the outside, the almost random arrangement of cells establishes a kind of correspondence with the irregular struts of the Bird's Nest.
Note that all Italian translations of English irregular words have spelling-to-sound correspondences that are regular in Italian.
Likewise, although low-frequency words with irregular spellings cannot be read successfully using nonlexical spelling-to-sound correspondences, activation differences for reading words with irregular relative to regular spellings may result, in part, from unsuccessful nonlexical processing and the need to resolve interference between nonlexical and lexical/semantic processing.
The lexical/semantic knowledge permits word comprehension and also contributes to achieving the correct pronunciation of "irregular words" (e.g., PINT) that violate statistically typical spelling-to-sound correspondences.
A word was deemed regular (rather than irregular) if its rime (e.g., –at in cat) followed typical spelling-to-sound correspondences (n.b., there is no fixed set of spelling-to-sound rules in English).
The correspondence is striking.
