Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Edward Carney is at the University of Manchester.