Edward Carney

English Spelling

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

English Spelling explores the rules and conventions on which present-day English spelling is based. This Language Workbook: * Examines how speech-sounds map onto each other * Explores the extent to which words sound identical or look identical * Analyzes various kinds of spelling mistakes * Looks at the main differences between American and British spelling * Shows how and why the names of people and places may vary from expected spelling conventions * Deals with the punctuation of words by apostrophes, hyphens and capitalisation * Considers several possible approaches to spelling reform

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780415161091
• ISBN-10: 0415161096
• Artikelnr.: 22376236

Autorenporträt

Edward Carney

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Speaking and Writing
Chapter 2 Finding Phonemes
Chapter 3 Long and Short Vowel Pairs
Chapter 4 Marking Vowel Length
Chapter 5 Complications in Length Marking
Chapter 6 Some Consonant Spellings
Chapter 7 Some Vowel Spellings
Chapter 8 Look-Alikes and Sound-Alikes
Chapter 9 Sound-Alike Affixes
Chapter 10 The Spelling of Names
Chapter 11 Rules and Mistakes
Chapter 12 More Than Letters
Chapter 13 American and British Spelling
Chapter 14 Spelling Reform