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Peer reviewedGates, Louis – Reading Horizons, 1986
Updates T. Clymer's 1963 phonic generalization study by largely rewriting consonant generalizations. Consonants in 17,211 words from the Stanford Spelling Word List were analyzed and Clymer's 45 rules reduced to three, which predict consonant situations with 99 percent accuracy. (SRT).
Descriptors: Consonants, Elementary Education, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonics
