Sentence examples for use of irregular words from inspiring English sources

The use of irregular words was crucial to the study, since it forced the readers to use inner speech, rather than making the decision based on the orthographic form of the word.

In our study, the inner and overt tasks involved reading of irregular words.

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.

It should be informative to address these points in the future using a similar design, but (i) between languages, and (ii) using irregular words.

From closing the Gulf of Hormuz to missile attacks against regional targets, to the use of irregular forces, there is little reason to expect Tehran to practice restraint.

Note that all Italian translations of English irregular words have spelling-to-sound correspondences that are regular in Italian.

In addition, networks with different visual representations were tested on this effect and their Z scores of the irregular words were included in the same figure.

We illustrate these different mechanisms using data from an fMRI study of neural activity during reading aloud of regular words, irregular words, and pseudowords.

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).

In order to maximize the power to detect what was potentially a weak effect, item-level correlation analyses were computed using all 384 word stimuli (rather than just the short words) (n = 192 each of regular and irregular words).

Children are asked to write a list of regular and irregular words within a 2 min time limit.