Saturday, January 11, 2014

An alphabet as a GP table

Grapheme Phoneme Correspondences or GP Table for RITE
(Reduced Irregularity in Traditional English)


RITEspel is the reform proposal preferred by many who worked on the minimal change notation known as House Stile. HS was phonemic only with respect to 9 vowels positioned before a consonant. 5 short vowels aeiou or {EIOV in SAMPA and 4 long vowels. In multisyllable words the short vowels had to be followed by a double consonant: att... ett.. itt... ott.. utt.. as it attitude but not attack. *attack would retain the ck after the stressed short vowel but drop the extra t in the unstressed syllable. The long vowels in maid, mede, might, moat would have to be respelled made, meed, mite, mote.

Phonemicity is extended in RITE as shown in the GP Table below.. The Alfubet Key for RITE 40 phonograms: 18 vowels - 22 consonants vowels in one syllable words and endings are positional An alphabet is a grapheme-phoneme correspondence table: A collection of sound signs linking visible marks to speech sounds I haven't discovered the way to import a table in rich text so you will have to go here.

http://web.archive.org/web/20031025162400/http://www.unifon.org/kliyrspel.html 

 For the full set of rules go to RITE http://www.ritespel.org/  

Bad Arguments Against Spelling Reform A well designed and humorous presentation of the misguided arguments against sound spelling and spelling reform. http://web.archive.org/web/20080606034608/http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/vangogh/555/Spell/badarguments.htm

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