And Others Contextual Predictability Normt for Pairs of Words. Differing
( DOCUMENT RESUME ED 220 813 CS 006 802 AUTHOR Blanchard, Harry E.; And Others TITLE Contextual Predictability Normt for Pairs of Words. Differing in a Single Letter. Technical Report No. 260. INSTITUTION Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.; Illinoi Univ., Urbana. Center for the Study of Reading. SPONS AGENCY Nat Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC.; National Inst. of Mental Health (DHHS), Rockville, Md. N\ PUB DATE Aug 82 . CONTRACT 400-76-0116 GRANT NIMH-MH-32884; NIMH-MH-33408 NOTE 192p. EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Norms; *Perception Tests; *Predictive Validity; *Reading Research; *Research Tools; Research Utilization; *Resource Materials ABSTRACT To conduct a series of studies and to provide .other A researchers with texts that may prove useful in answeringa variety ofIlquestions about perception in reading, itwas.necessary for two researchers to create pairs of texts thatwere different in meaning but were physically different in only one letter. These texts were created by first identifying pairs of words thit differed, ina single letter and then writing a context of one or more sentences in which either member of the pair would fit and make sense at thesame word position in the text, (For example, "leaks/leans" in."The shed...ge... much it is unusable.") After the introduction, the first section of the document describes the construction.of the materials, the two . questionnaires used to determine the predictability of the critical word in the texts, the organization of the norms, and the potential uses of the norms in research. The bulk of the document then presents the words-themselves, organized by length, from three to seven letters and by 3,arts of speech and shape of the pair.
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