Another use for truespel. Note that IPA or SAMPA were not used. Totally useless. But truespel could do the trick. Getting in tune with the Bard Jul 21 2005 ...
tom zurinskas
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Jul 23, 2005 7:52 pm
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Tom, Where does it specifically say that the IPA was not used? The writer does not use the IPA to explain pronunciation change but this is no clear indication ...
... Doesn't say it was. Why would anybody use it? ... To me it says they replaced "voice" with the spelling "vice" to make it easy for the actors to read. ......
tom zurinskas
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Jul 25, 2005 2:33 pm
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Tom, IPA is one of those clear only if known things. It works fine as a technical language between linguists and others who have studied it. It doesn't work so...
Normal people would look a word up. So here's what m-w.com says about a phoneme, below. Notice the word's roots. It's a "speech sound". But the definition...
Dear Tom, You are correct in saying that phonemes are abstractions. As such, they are not real. You are trying to reproduce sounds (which are real) NOT ...
Bernard Sypniewski
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Aug 11, 2005 5:43 pm
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Bernie, Actually, I go the other way. I think of phonemes as speech sounds, like m-w.com says not abstractions. The latest thinking that a "phonemic" change ...
Tom and Bernard, A phoneme is an abstraction or a category or a concept. Half the things we talk about are concepts or abstractions. The sound that you can...
Tom, I think you have misread the dictionary. I don't think you have ever bothered to read a book on phonetics. The basic problem with your concepts is that...
... Right Steve, the tow k's in keep and keel are formed a little differently but are called the phoneme k. So a phoneme is a sound, a sound category so to...
tom zurinskas
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Aug 12, 2005 1:54 am
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If/when we get together, I'll explain why I think that "phoneme" (used in the traditional linguistic sense) are abstractions and what I/we (a merry band of...
Bernard Sypniewski
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Aug 12, 2005 12:55 pm
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McGraw-Hill has a “Children’s Dictionary” first published in 2003 written by the Wordsmyth Collaboratory. In hardback it’s about 2 inches think or...
tom zurinskas
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Aug 19, 2005 6:33 am
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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0819notextbooks.html Arizona high school boots textbooks in favor of iBooks Associated Press Aug. 19,...
tom zurinskas
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Aug 19, 2005 3:59 pm
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My grandkids have to buy McGraw-Hill's "Children's Dictionary", which is billed as "The only dictionary your child will ever need!". It's 2 inches thick in...
Tom, Sounds like you need to hire an artist for Truespel;-) I would be interested in your critique of the McGraw hill Children's Dictionary. If you want to win...
Steve, I put a list of "-inger" words in a column and asked folks to differentiate which had the "ng" or "ngg". I could not do it, and don't know if anybody ...
... SB: Why don't you post it on saundspel? ... SB: Of course it is a PG system. How would the way that stress is represented make a difference. We need a...
Steve, The "-inger" words were in that forum, to which Bob replied that ng ngg discrimination is unnecessary as well. How do you define pronunciation guide...
tom zurinskas
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Aug 22, 2005 2:58 pm
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... SB: If you do not pretend to be a dictionary key, there are lots of simplifications you can employ. ban-k is not the same as bang-k bin-g is not the same...
From my investigation of repeated instances of the top 5k words in the newspaper, the "a with silent e" (a-e) has the most instances 34% of all the ~ae sounds...
The McGraw-Hill Children's Dictionary ("The only dictionary your child will ever need") has phonetic ~w as in "we" for all the words starting with "wh". This...
This shows how teaching an initial phonetic (phonic) spelling system can help kids "get it". Apparently this really helps boys catch up to girls in reading. ...
tom zurinskas
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Aug 27, 2005 12:08 pm
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Thanks Stephanie, Of interest is that our President tends to say all plurals with an /s/ even though most should be /z/. I can give you the percentages. Looks...
... How can I tell which phonetic symbol to use? STEVE: One way is just to pronounce the word. DOGS is pronounced /dogz/, CATS is pronounced /cats/. Notice...
Analyzing plurals ending in s Of the top 5000 words in The Times of London newspaper 732 words were plural nouns ending in the letter "s." That's only 1.5%....
Analyzsing plurals ending in s Of the top 5000 words in The Times of London newspaper 732 words were plural nouns ending in the letter "s." That's only 1.5%....
tom zurinskas
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Oct 23, 2005 2:23 am
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Tom, The percentage of words taking the sound of z is more than 22%. I count at least 40%. Every voiced consonant follwed by s is prounced z. --Steve ... chs...
Steve, These data are taken from the Time of London newspaper count of words and how often they appear in the paper. This reflects on words as they are used ...
Steve, Actually that should read that the sound of the plural "s" is 78% ~z and 22% ~s in normal speech. Also the total plural words is 725 not 732. tom z ......
tom zurinskas
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Oct 23, 2005 11:57 pm
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hi.this is bhavik. i hv just joined this group. actually i am working on a project called "free speech accent analyzer".programming will be based on java...
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