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Gates, Louis – 1999
Using 17, 211 words drawn from the word list compiled for the Stanford Spelling Study (1963) and drawing upon the "American Heritage Dictionary of the American Language" as the pronunciation reference, a researcher approached the language as if little was known about its letter-sound relationships and examined by computer the letter-sound…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Illiteracy, Language Research
Gates, Louis – 1985
Focusing on phonograms and generalizations about phonics, this paper presents a comprehensive letter-sound study. The first chapter discusses the phonogram component of phonics, the Arthur Gates study of phonograms in l928, the phonics generalizations studies of the l960s, and the lack of a comprehensive study of the letter-sound relationship. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phonetics