Brett Kessler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1666071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brett Kessler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brett |
| FAMILY NAME | Kessler |
| SIGNATURE | KESSLER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5759-0193 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Levenshtein distance contributes to analyzing spelling as a measure of lexical quality
Lexical quality, which includes the precision of the orthographic information in a person’s stored lexical representations, is often assessed using spelling tests. Productions are typically scored in a binary fashion, as either correct or incorrect. Such scoring treats errors that are closer to the correct spelling and errors that are more distant from the correct spelling as equally wrong. Levenshtein distance, a computer-scored metric that refl…
Number and syllabification of following consonants influence use of long versus short vowels in English disyllables
How sensitive are adults to the role of morphology in spelling
Cues to stress in English spelling
Similarities among the shapes of writing and their effects on learning
Writing systems are usually studied in terms of the level of language that they represent, with little attention to the shapes that are used to do so. Those shapes are not random or accidental, however. They tend to be similar to one another within a script. Many of the Latin letters have a roughly vertical stem or hasta with an appendage or coda to the right. This arrangement is more common than one with the coda on the left of the hasta. We pre…
The Mathematical Assessment of Long‐Range Linguistic Relationships
Language classification differs from biological cladistics in that monogenesis cannot be assumed. Before a cladogram or family tree can be accepted, linguists must be convinced that the languages are related at all. Morpheme tables, or word lists, provide a good framework for investigating relatedness, but methodologies for quantifying and assessing the data statistically are still being developed. The comparative method furnished a viable statis…
The English Lexicon Project
The significance of word lists
Similar words for similar concepts turn up in many widely scattered languages. Some linguists say this is chance while others claim that many if not all of the world's languages descend from a single prehistoric language. Yet neither position has been analyzed or supported with statistics. Computerized statistical techniques can be used to help determine whether or not words in different languages have ancestral connections. These techniques are …
In Defense of an Onset-Rime Syllable Structure for English
Many linguists and psycholinguists have suggested that English syllables have an-onset-rime structure. Pierrehumbert and Nair (1995) have recently argued against this view and in favor of the idea that syllables have a moraic structure. We show that the results of word game experiments reported by Pierrehumbert and Nair are consistent with the onset-rime theory and that there are problems with their idea of output templates. Although people may l…
How sensitive are adults to the role of morphology in spelling
In Defense of an Onset-Rime Syllable Structure for English
Many linguists and psycholinguists have suggested that English syllables have an-onset-rime structure. Pierrehumbert and Nair (1995) have recently argued against this view and in favor of the idea that syllables have a moraic structure. We show that the results of word game experiments reported by Pierrehumbert and Nair are consistent with the onset-rime theory and that there are problems with their idea of output templates. Although people may l…
In Defense of an Onset-Rime Syllable Structure for English
Many linguists and psycholinguists have suggested that English syllables have an-onset-rime structure. Pierrehumbert and Nair (1995) have recently argued against this view and in favor of the idea that syllables have a moraic structure. We show that the results of word game experiments reported by Pierrehumbert and Nair are consistent with the onset-rime theory and that there are problems with their idea of output templates. Although people may l…
The significance of word lists
Similar words for similar concepts turn up in many widely scattered languages. Some linguists say this is chance while others claim that many if not all of the world's languages descend from a single prehistoric language. Yet neither position has been analyzed or supported with statistics. Computerized statistical techniques can be used to help determine whether or not words in different languages have ancestral connections. These techniques are …
The English Lexicon Project
The Mathematical Assessment of Long‐Range Linguistic Relationships
Language classification differs from biological cladistics in that monogenesis cannot be assumed. Before a cladogram or family tree can be accepted, linguists must be convinced that the languages are related at all. Morpheme tables, or word lists, provide a good framework for investigating relatedness, but methodologies for quantifying and assessing the data statistically are still being developed. The comparative method furnished a viable statis…
Similarities among the shapes of writing and their effects on learning
Writing systems are usually studied in terms of the level of language that they represent, with little attention to the shapes that are used to do so. Those shapes are not random or accidental, however. They tend to be similar to one another within a script. Many of the Latin letters have a roughly vertical stem or hasta with an appendage or coda to the right. This arrangement is more common than one with the coda on the left of the hasta. We pre…
Cues to stress in English spelling
How sensitive are adults to the role of morphology in spelling
Number and syllabification of following consonants influence use of long versus short vowels in English disyllables
Levenshtein distance contributes to analyzing spelling as a measure of lexical quality
Lexical quality, which includes the precision of the orthographic information in a person’s stored lexical representations, is often assessed using spelling tests. Productions are typically scored in a binary fashion, as either correct or incorrect. Such scoring treats errors that are closer to the correct spelling and errors that are more distant from the correct spelling as equally wrong. Levenshtein distance, a computer-scored metric that refl…
Linguistics (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (4 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (4 works) · Spelling (4 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Statistics (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)