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Title |
Title of document |
10. The Unstressed Schwa - Spellbound |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Robbins Burling; University of Michigan, (Emeritus); |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Linguistics |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
English spellling; illiteracy; reading; spelling reform; orthography; unstressed schwa |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
English language;orthography |
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Description |
Abstract |
This chapter looks at the plight of the most common of our English vowels, the unstressed Schwa.The schwa is the most frequent vowel of spoken English, so we need a way to represent it in writing, but no system of spelling could possibly represent all the chaotic variability of spoken schwas. The author argues for a rule whereby whenever one variant of a vowel is recognizable as its “full” pronunciation, it is that pronunciation that should be represented by the spelling. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Contributor |
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Date |
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22-Jan-2016 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Type |
Type |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/24678 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.24678 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Spellbound |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
historical to contemporary |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |