The reverse word list
The reverse word list

Author: J. L. Dolby

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-11-05

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 3111563375

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Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

Author: Joan Bybee

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0195301560

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This is a collection of three decades of articles by the linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles argue for the importance of frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure.

American English Spelling
American English Spelling

Author: D. W. Cummings

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1988-05

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 9780801834431

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In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and self-reorganizing system that is responsive to four kinds of imperative: phonetic, semantic, etymological, and systemic. Cummings offers a systematic theory of orthography and applies this theory to the American English vocabulary with numerous examples. Cummings also describes the explication of written words into their elements, particles, and processes, and he sets out the tactical and procedural rules that control the distribution and sequencing of vowels and consonants. In the largest section of the book, he provides an exhaustive description of the major and minor correspondences between the sounds of American English words and their spellings. An essential reference work, American English Spelling moves beyond questions of how words are spelled to an understanding of why they are spelled as they are.