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The roots of phonics : a historical introduction / by Miriam Balmuth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balmuth, Miriam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Phonology, Historical.
- English language.
- English language--Orthography and spelling.
- English language--Pronunciation.
- Reading--Phonetic method.
- Reading.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 237 pages ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Paul H. Brookes Pub., [2009]
- Contents:
- Characteristics of writing systems
- Pictograms and logograms
- Syllables
- Alphabets
- History of the English alphabet
- Alternative forms of written English
- English punctuation marks
- The ancestry of spoken English : Indo-European origins
- The Germanic heritage
- Backgrounds of Old English
- Old English pronunciation
- Backgrounds of Middle English : the Norman conquest
- From Old to Middle English
- Middle English pronunciation
- The transition from Middle to Modern English
- Backgrounds of English spelling
- Seventeenth and eighteenth century authoritarianism : backgrounds of the English dictionary
- The English dictionary from the eighteenth century on
- Transplanting the English language to America
- Noah Webster
- Early American spelling
- Alphabet reform
- Simplified spelling
- Rejection of the alphabetic code I : Horace Mann
- Rejection of the alphabetic code II : through the nineteenth century to today
- Emphasizing regular patterns first
- Nonphonemic spelling patterns as an advantage of written English.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781598570366
- 1598570366
- OCLC:
- 298325813
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