Edward Carney

A Survey of English Spelling (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date survey of this important but hitherto neglected area of the English language. It includes examples, statistics and analyses together with a detailed contents listing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134872244
• Artikelnr.: 38255649

Autorenporträt

Edward Carney is at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

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