LINGUIS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stewie Griffin, Learning Disability, Readwrite
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Problems with english spelling (cid:523)and why it"s messed up(cid:524) If we were to design principles for a good spelling system: one symbol = one sound (phone) In english we have the many symbol to one phone problem: fish, thing, battle, syllabus. Multiple symbols for one phone: see, sea, scene: separate symbols for separate phones. Thing vs that (different sounds for th) Pin vs. pine (many sounds for i) Who vs. cot (many sounds for o) Keep vs. kool (different type of k) Why writing is unnatural (not a biological trait: children have to be taught to read/write, but not to speak, many people have learning disorders that make reading/writing more difficult (an. Suprasegments: stress and tone. (different tones create semantic distinctions in other languages) Consonants- produced with a constriction in the vocal tract (front of your face down to your larynx (right before your lungs)) Vowels-produced without a constriction in the vocal tract.
