Spellbound: Untangling English Spelling
Author:   Robbins Burling
Publisher:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781781791318


Pages:   186
Publication Date:   01 January 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Robbins Burling
Publisher:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.419kg
ISBN:  

9781781791318


ISBN 10:   1781791317
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   01 January 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Part I 1. What Needs Fixing? 2. What Happened to English Spelling? 3. Reading, Spelling, and Illiteracy 4. Reforms for Other Languages 5. Failed Repairs for English 6. Is Repair Possible? Part II 7. The Criteria for Better Spelling for English 8. Consonants 9. Stressed Vowels 10. The Unstressed Schwa 11. How Might it Look? 12. English spelling: Optimal or Absurd? General Appendix: Table of Vowels

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Burling...effectively explore[s] the history of English spelling and the 'mass of messy problems' that would need to be resolved if reform were to succeed, problems related to accommodating variant dialects of English and overcoming resistance to change. --CHOICE


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Robbins Burling graduated from Yale University in 1950 and received his PhD from Harvard in 1958. Between these dates he spent two years in Northeastern India, conducting an ethnographic and linguistic study of an ethnic group known as the Garos. He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1957 and moved to the University of Michigan in 1963, where he taught linguistics and anthropology until his retirement in 1995. Since the early grades, he has been a hopelessly poor speller.

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