Statistical analyses of English sound-to-spelling correspondences (Kessler & Treiman, 2001) show that vowel spellings become more predictable, in some cases, when the preceding and following consonants are taken into account. In four experiments, we asked whether adult spellers are sensitive to such associations. We found evidence for sensitivity to associations involving both preceding and fol...

Patterns of coarticulation between onset and rime in the speech of six Scottish English speaking children aged 4 years is examined in the words dye /dai/ and sty /stai/. F2 is 272Hz lower at the burst following /st/ than following /d/. The lower F2 after /st/ in the onset-rime transition is accompanied by a higher F2 during /ai/’s diphthongal offglide. Moreover, the overall shapes of the F2 tra...