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Routledge
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Routledge
564 Pages
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Routledge
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Published at a time when literacy and spelling are issues of topical concern, A Survey of English Spelling offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date overview of this important but hitherto neglected area of the English language. The text brings together a vast body of knowledge, both synthesised from diverse sources and original, unpublished research. The emphasis is on a... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, PREFACE, CONVENTIONS, SYMBOLS AND TECHNICAL TERMS, 1. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO DESCRIBING ENGLISH SPELLING, 2. LITERACY AND ENGLISH SPELLING: METHODS AND PROBLEMS, 3. SPEECH-TO-TEXT CORRESPONDENCES: ENCODING, 4. TEXT-TO-SPEECH CORRESPONDENCES: DECODING, 5. IDENTICAL FORMS: HOMOGRAPHS AND HOMOPHONES, 6. CONVENTIONS USED IN THE SPELLING OF NAMES, 7. STANDARDIZATION AND SPELLING REFORM, REFERENCES, GENERAL INDEX SELECTIVE WORD INDEX, INDEX OF SPELLING CORRESPONDENCES, INDEX OF INITIAL AND FINAL LETTER STRINGS IN WORDS, INDEX OF SPELLING ERRORS AND RE-SPELLINGS
Biography
Edward Carney is at the University of Manchester.
