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Author Brooks, Greg.

Title Dictionary of the British English spelling system / Greg Brooks.

Imprint Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, ©2015.

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Note Available through Open Book Publishers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-490).
Summary "This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters <a, e, i, o, u>) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables."--Publisher's website
Contents List of tables -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- A 40-year gestation -- How to use this book -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The phonemes of spoken English -- 3. The phoneme-grapheme correspondences of English, 1: Consonants -- 4. How do you know when to write a consonant letter double? -- 5. The phoneme-grapheme correspondences of English, 2: Vowels -- 6. Some spelling rules for vowels -- 7. Special processes -- 8. The graphemes of written English -- 9. The grapheme-phoneme correspondences of English, 1: Graphemes beginning with consonant letters -- 10. The grapheme-phoneme correspondences of English, 2: Graphemes beginning with vowel letters -- 11. Evaluating some pronunciation rules for vowel graphemes -- Appendix A: Assumptions and technicalities -- Appendix B: Pedagogically selected lists of phoneme-grapheme and grapheme-phoneme correspondences -- References.
Subject English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language -- Great Britain -- Orthography and spelling -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Anglais (Langue) -- Orthographe -- Guides, manuels, etc.
Anglais (Langue) -- Grande-Bretagne -- Orthographe -- Guides, manuels, etc.
Dictionaries.
ELT background and reference material.
ELT dictionaries and reference.
English language teaching (ELT)
Language.
Language: reference and general.
linguistics.
Phonetics, phonology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Phonetics & Phonology.
English language -- Orthography and spelling
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Genre/Form Handbook
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Added Author Open Book Publishers.
Other Form: Print version: Druck-Ausgabe Brooks, Greg. Dictionary of the British English spelling system
ISBN 9781783741090 (electronic bk.)
1783741090 (electronic bk.)
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9781783741083
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9781783741083 (hbk.)
9781783741076 (pbk.)
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Standard No. 10.11647/OBP.0053 doi
AU@ 000054960195
DEBBG BV044057810
UKMGB 017706793
UKMGB 018577967
UKMGB 018672413

 
    
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