The Structure of English Orthography

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Walter de Gruyter, Jul 22, 2011 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 162 pages
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Contents

I Purpose Plan and Scope
9
2 Purpose
11
4 Plan and Scope
13
II Attitudes toward English Orthography
16
2 Grammarians
17
3 Contemporary Linguists
25
4 Spelling Reformers
30
III Preliminaries to Orthographic Analysis
34
VI Fricative Alternations
92
2 VoicedVoiceless Alternations
93
VII Vowel Distributions Correspondences and Alternations
101
2 Alternations Based Upon Primary Vowel Spellings
108
3 Consonant Influences
109
4 w Influence
112
5 Miscellaneous Consonant Influences
113
6 Secondary Vowel Patterns
114

2 Correspondences
39
3 Morphemic Features
41
4 Phonotactical Influences
44
5 Descriptive Model
45
IV The Graphemic System
47
2 Markers
55
3 Graphemic Alternations
59
V Consonant Distributions Correspondences and Alternations
63
2 The Correspondences
64
VIII Conclusions
120
2 Spelling Reform
122
3 The Teaching of Reading
123
Bibliography
130
Index of Terms
134
Word Index
136
Index of Names
158
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