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Acknowledgements | ||
Preface | ||
Conventions, Symbols and Technical Terms | ||
1 | Alternative Approaches to Describing English Spelling | 1 |
1.1 | A philological approach | 1 |
1.2 | A functional approach | 3 |
2 | Literacy and English Spelling: Methods and Problems | 5 |
2.1 | Writing without speech | 5 |
2.2 | Linking speech to writing: sounds and letters | 6 |
2.3 | Divergence | 15 |
2.4 | Lexical spelling | 18 |
2.5 | Reading | 26 |
2.6 | Finding correspondences | 32 |
2.7 | Accent and Dialect: Literacy is Harder for Some | 52 |
2.8 | Rules and Errors | 66 |
2.9 | Spelling Subsystems and Literacy | 96 |
3 | Speech-to-Text Correspondences: Encoding | 104 |
3.1 | A corpus-based study | 104 |
3.2 | General Factors in Speech-to-Text Rules | 112 |
3.3 | Speech-to-text correspondences phoneme by phoneme | 134 |
4 | Text-to-Speech Correspondences: Decoding | 256 |
4.1 | Scale and complexity in text-to-speech spelling rules | 256 |
4.2 | General Factors in Text-to-Speech Rules | 267 |
4.3 | Text-to-Speech Spelling Rules | 280 |
5 | Identical Forms: Homographs and Homophones | 395 |
5.1 | Homographs and homophones | 395 |
5.2 | Types of homograph | 401 |
5.3 | Types of homophone | 401 |
5.4 | New words from variant spellings | 407 |
5.5 | Homophonous affixes | 417 |
6 | Conventions Used in the Spelling of Names | 443 |
6.1 | The spelling of names | 443 |
6.2 | Manipulated spellings in trade-names | 446 |
6.3 | Variants and totems | 448 |
6.4 | Padding | 454 |
6.5 | Variability in vowel correspondences | 458 |
6.6 | Stress placement and vowel reduction | 464 |
6.7 | Variability in consonant correspondences | 465 |
7 | Standardization and Spelling Reform | 467 |
7.1 | Sixteenth and seventeenth century standardizations | 467 |
7.2 | Etymology: familiarity and respectability | 468 |
7.3 | Spelling reform in Britain and the USA | 473 |
References | 489 | |
General Index | 494 | |
Selective Word Index | 512 | |
Index of Spelling Correspondences | 522 | |
Index of Initial and Final Letter Strings in Words | 527 | |
Index of Spelling Errors and Re-Spellings | 530 |
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