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Editorial on 1. Freespeling, ita, i page
Spelling Progress Bulleting
Inform membership of the progress on developing notations, reform strategies,
and promotion of the idea of reform [beachhead]
by Steve Bett
Theme: avenues for development
expand on the regularities in the traditional notation
focus on the foreign learner - English as a 2nd languge
promote the teaching of two spelling systems
Lots of stage one suggestions - few first step suggestions
Wade world vote is a first step
Stages of orthographic development GP Table, Dictionary, Converter |
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World English:
14 pages
by Pavle Mitre |
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The Case for Teaching Two Spelling Systems 3 pages
More that two varieties of spelling reform
An i.t.a. approach by definition involves teaching two different spelling
systems. A highly phonemic one followed by a chaotic one. Most reading
teachers are opposed to teaching two systems although ESL teachers often
introduce the IPA.
The i.t.a as both an initial teaching alphabet and pronunciation guide
The i.t.a. program was never taken beyond the 2nd grade. It was not
used as a pronunciation guide and never really addressed the problem of
double consonants.
by Steve Bett and Tom Zurinskis
Staged piecemeal reforms have been justified on the basis that these
are the only kind of reform that people will accept. However, the
recommendations to date, other than SR1, have been more extensive than
they reveal. Rite respells 40% of the words, however it does retain
most of the basic word patterns. Cut Spelling also respelles over
30% of the words. And, of course, retains basic word pattersn since
only the silent redundant letters are removed in the least drastic surplus
cut form.
Valerie says that there is lots of research on this. Two systems
are harder to learn than one. Most do not see the relevance.
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Texting and its relation to
spelling reform
by Nick 5 pages? Valerie Yule has more info on this.
Highly abbreviated spelling with a penchant to use numbers in place
of letters. 4 sale, RU a f8k. f8 [fate] dnt B l8. |
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freespeling.com
The World Vote
by Richard Lawrence Wade 1 page |
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The importance & usefulness of linguistics for spelling
reform - Concepts in linguistics
describing relationships - rarely a promoter of prescription |
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On the Number of Phonemes in English
The possibilities for agreeement across dialects
Steve Bett
This was one of the questions asked on a survey of primary school teachers
and professors by Al Mancowics. These suggested that primary school
teachers did not know much about phonics or linguistics. I wonder how how
spelling reformers would do on the same quiz. In generally, I think
that reformers are better informed. |
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From linear to compact tabular presentation
A difficult move for many [not written]
related to... |
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Dyslexia: Brain Damage or Bad Teaching - Patric
Goff |
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Evaluating Reform Notations
1. loss of eye rhymes, Does the reform obliterate pattern to m..
This seems to be a major concern of those who write books on spelling.
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Drafts of possible future articles
Easiest Notation to Learn
Typology - what are we talking about?
Are syllabaries and logographic scripts easier to learn for children?
The evidence suggests that they are but how good is the evidience?
What I want to see in a new notation for English |
5 pages?
spell systems mix |
How alphabets develop
by Niklaus Shaefer
Indus syllabary alphabet was recently deciphered. Now some are
claiming it was the first. |
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Hitchhiked orthographies
- What English might look like if the sounds were represented as they are
in other writing systems. ref:
[afterward-Tom's idea of using truespel to represent other languages] |
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Dyslexia - Bett supplemented by Seymour's
article [find] |
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Phonemic Awareness and the Rules of Spelling
Can we extract all of the regularities in the traiditonal orthography?
Theo on rules |
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Valerie Yule? interspel
bibliography |
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Recent research of relevance to reform
based on the Kimball bibliography
More on |
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Heterographs-new
The list from the old cover
I can't believe it is such a mess |
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note from Ronthaler, Let Reilly
review this.
What if Had i.t.a. had used a traditional character
set |
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Book Review: ?? |
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Paper on chemistry notation by
on the Reilly disk Richard Sliwka |
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i.t.a. and new spelling - the heritage
What we know about them collective knowledge |
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Campbell Kimbal Bibliography of studies that support
reform |
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Scaggs receives grant to study historical spelling |
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The Spelling test - How Phonemic spelling allows one to spell
with near 100% predictability and accuracy - but it fails to help anyone
with traditional spelling. This is at the bottom of the debate for
and against phonics. Some say the glass is half full, others half
empty.
What is clear is that sounding out spellings is not enough. It
only gets you in the ball park. Claims are still being made that
English is 85% predictable when you know the rules.
There are a variety of pronunciation guide notations and there
are some cases where dictionaries would not agree. When the pronunciation.
The spelling of foreign words is particularly difficult. |
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Orthographies and Spelling Reform Proposals published by the SSS |
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