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A Short Reading List
on Spelling Reform
and related topics
Valerie Yule's 1991 Bibliography Supplemented by Steve Bett
Go to a more extensive bibliography Bob Brown's bibliography
Red=highly recommended
Aaron, P.G. and R.M. Joshi. 1989. Reading and Writing in Different Orthographic Systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers in Cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division. What is wrong with spanish orthography? some letters are associated with more than one sound: b=th, b, v,
Abercrombie, David. 1949. What is a Letter. Lingua 2: 54-62 Early on, the letter sound distinction was not always made
Abercrombie, David. 1967. Elements of General Phonetics. Edinburgh University Press,
Edinburgh. 1983. Columbia University Press.Abercrombie, David 1980. English Phonetic Texts. publisher
[125 pages on several varieties of IPA for RP] A phonemic system uses the fewest number of symbols to distinguish words from similar sounding words with different meanings. There is not a symbol for each distinctive sound. There is at least one symbol for every phoneme. We want the writing system to provide the maximum legibility consistent with ease or writing and printing. Abercrombie compares up to ten different transcriptions of the same text and shows how different linguists and phoneticians used slightly different IPA based notations for RP. Some preferred new letter shapes, some tried to manage mostly with ascii characters and extended letter symbols such as the colon.Albright, R. W. 1958. The International Phonetic Alphabet: Its Background and Development. Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
Albrow, K. H. 1972. The English Writing System: Notes towards a Description. London: Longmans.
Allen, Imo S. 1915. Anglo [English Simplified]. Deighton Bell & Co. London. A system similar to IPA: fiir fear, feer-fair [ee=ei], pour-puur, poor-poor. aeae=hurt, loo=law, gwd=good, fwwd=food, wood=wwd, j=ie, aep=up, v=schwa, x=zh, Y=the, tcip=ship, dxot=jot,
Asher & Henderson. 1981. Toward a History of Phonetics. Edinburgh: University Press. Includes an article by phonetician, David Abercrombie, former VP of the Simplified Spelling Society, titled Some Orthographic Experiments of the Last Four Centuries. In this he unearths a wide range of historical new alphabet and diacritical schemes. There is also an interesting paper on Isaac Pitman's mid 19c. work on new alphabets and ITA augmented alphabet schemesby J. Kelley titled, The 1847 Alphabet: An episode of phonotypy.
Augst, Gerhard (Editor). 1986. New Trends in Graphemics and Orthography: Kolloquium Siegen 22-24. Walter de Gruyter, Inc.
Baron, Naomi. 1981. Speech, Writing, and the Sign. Bloomington: Indiana Univeristy Press
Berry, Jack. 1958. The Making of Alphabets. in Proceedings, Oslo. 1977.
The Making of Alphbaets Revisited. in A. Fishman (ed.) Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems.Bett, Steve T. 2000. Review of the Art of Spelling JSSS29
Bett, Steve T. 2001. Number of Phonemes, JSSS30
Bradley, Henry. 1900. On the relations between spoken and written language with special reference to English
Bradshaw, John. 1975. Are we reading right? New Scientist 6 Feb :321-323.
Bright, Wm. and Peter Daniels. 1996. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press
Bryant , Peter & Lynette Bradley. 1985. Children’s reading problems: psychology and Education. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Bryson, Bill. 1990. Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way. New York: Wm. Morrow.
Bullokar, William. 1580. Bullokar’s Booke at Large, for the Amendment of Orthographie for English Speech. London: Henrie Denham. This is just to show you that the idea of English spelling reform goes back a long long way.
Burgess, Anthony. 1992. A Mouthful of Air. Language, Languages .. Especially English. New York: Wm. Murrow. A highly readable survey of language, how it operates, and how it got to be that way.
Carney, Edward. 1994. Survey of English Spelling London, Rutledge. [Reviewed in JSSS 24]
Carney, Edward, 1997. English Spelling[reviewed in JSSS27]
Castro, Portuguese-English Grammar, 1800. naitar=nature, xes chaise, rein=rain, quer=care, den=then, gret=great, lafe=laugh, fadar=father,
Chall, Jeanne, V A Jacobs & L E Baldwin. 1990. The reading crisis: why poor children fall behind. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Chao, Y R. 1968. Language and symbolic systems. London: Cambridge University Press. A classic book about writing systems of the world.
Chomsky, Carol. 1970. Reading, writing and phonology. Harvard Educational Review, 40.:287-309. States the classic Chomsky case for English spelling being ‘the best possible’ or optimal for English, but in so doing, shows its weakness. The evidence for it does not hold up.
Chou En-lai, WU Yu-chang & Li Chih-hsi. 1958. Reform of the Chinese Written Language. Beijing, China: Foreign Language Press. One of the first concerns of the Chinese revolution was to improve Chinese characters and introduce alphabetic pinyin for learning to read.
Coulmas, F. and Ehlich, K. (eds) 1983 Writing in Focus. Mouton. Otto, L. Writing systems and written language. 31-43
Coulmas, Florian. 1989 The Writing Systems of the World. Oxford: Basic Blackwell. Topics include: From Icon to Symbol, Units of Speech & Writing, Sacred Characters, Chinese, Semitic, The Alphabet, Letter to Sound, Creating Alphabets, Writing Reform.
Coulmas, Florian. 1996 Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Oxford: Basic Blackwell.
Cragie, William A. 1930. Problems of Spelling Reform
Crystal, David. 1987. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge University Press, pp 177-217, especially p 214-17. Everything you want to know about language - except that spelling reform is presumed to be only ‘spelling as you speak’ and therefore impracticable.
Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge University Press. English Spelling is discussed on p 272f. G.N. Trenité's The Chaos is found on p 273. Spelling reform, with sidebars on the American Literacy Council and the Simplified Spelling Society is found on p 276f.
Dewey, Godfrey. 1971. English spelling: Roadblock to reading. NY: Teachers College Press.
Dewey, Godfrey. 1970. Relative Frequency
Downing, John. 1967. Evaluating the Initial Teaching Alphabet. London: Cassell.
Downing, John. 1973. Comparative Reading: Cross national studies in behavior and processes in reading and writing. Macmillan
Downing, John & Leong, C-K. 1982. The psychology of reading. NY: Macmillan Publishing Co.
Edwards, Mary Louise and Shriberg. L.D. 1983. Phonology. San Diego. College Hill Press What should a theory of phonological acquisition accoun for? A theory should make testable predictions. loss of an earlier acquired contrast, recidivism. dait for side and light.
Eco, Umberto. 1995. The Search for the Perfect Language. London, Blackwell
Fishman, Joshua A. (ed.) 1977. Advances in the Creation and Revision of Writing Systems. The Hague: Mouton
Follick, Mont. 1965 The Case for Spelling Reform. PE1152 .F64
Furness, Edna L. 1964. Spelling for the Millions. Appleton Centruy Crofts, N.Y. Has the Veblen and Malone quotes.
Freire, Paulo. 1972. Pedagogy of the oppressed. Harmondsworth: Penguin
Gaur, Albertine. 1987 A history of writing. London: British Library
Gogate, Mandukar. 1988. Roman Lipi Parashad Conference Proceedings. Bombay. Gogate’s movement to use the roman alphabet as a common alternative script for the many different Indian languages is relevant to English spelling reform - because in spite of unremitting effort, Indians have rejected this eminently practical idea, in part because all they know of an alphabetic script is English spelling - which is worse than anything they have already.
Gray, William. 1956. The teaching of reading and writing. an international survey. Paris: UNESCO. We have not got much further than this in cross-cultural comparisons of the effectiveness of differnt writng systems. Compares different methods of teaching reading, spelling, and handwriting. Illustrated.
Grimes, J. E. & Gordon, R. G. 1980. The design of new orthographies. In J. F. Kavanagh & R. L. Venezky (Eds.) Orthography, reading and dyslexia. op. cit. Most of the writing systems for the languages of the world have been designed within the last 150 years, and most of them use the roman alphabet.
Hass, Werner. 1969. Alphabets for English. Manchester University Press.
Hass, W. 1970. Phono-Graphic Translation. Manchester University Press.
Hass, W. 1982. Standard Languages Spoken and Written. Manchester University Press. Barnes & Noble.
Hendrickson, Robt. 1986. American Talk: The words and ways of American dialects. New York: Viking Penguin.
Hockett, Charles. 1958. Course in Modern Linguistics. Prentice-Hall
The view from language : selected essays, 1948-1974 by Hockett, Charles Francis
1984. Refurbishing Our Foundations : Elementary Linguistics from an Advanced Point of ViewIves, Kenneth. 1979. Written Dialects & Spelling Reform. Progresiv Publishers [only $5]
Jensen, Hans. 1969. Sign, Symbol, and Script. New York: Putnam (Geschichte der Schrift, 1925)
Johnson, Samuel. 1755 . Preface to A Dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals. London: Knapton.
Jones, Daniel. 1950. The Pronunciation of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Kipling , Rudyard. How the alphabet Was Made. Just-so Stories.
Kolers, Paul A. (ed.) Processing of Visible Language, vo. 2. New York: Plenum Press, 76-24
Kramsky, Jiri. 1969. The Word as a Linguistic Unit. Hague: Mouton, No. 25.
Kyril
Landman, Michael. 1960. Reform of the Hebrew Alphabet
Laubach, Frank C. 1996. Let's Reform Spelling -- Why and How. New Readers Press. New York.
Lindgren, Harry. 1969. Spelling Reform: A New Approach. Alpha Books.
SR1 (Spelling Reform Stage 1) and Phonetic A & B explained. [copies available from SSS]Longman; Hitch & Hawes; Millar; & Dodsley.
Longman. 1996. Longman Dictionary of American English. Edinburgh: Addison Wesley-Longman
McCrum, Robert (et al.) 1996. The Story of English. Text version of the BBC TV Series.
McGuinness, Diane. 1997. Why Our Children Cant Read... New York: Free Press
Malone, John R. The larger aspects of spelling reform? Elementary English, 39: 435-445, May, 1962
Martin, J. H. & Friedberg, A. 1986, Writing to Read. NY, Warner Books
Millard, A.R. 1976. The Canaanite Linear Alphabaet and itss Passage to the Greeks. Kadmos 15, 130-144.
Moseley, D & Nicol, C. c 1985. Aurally coded English spelling dictionary. Wisbeck, Cambridge UK: Learning Development Aids.
Nakanishi, Akira. 1990. Writing Systems of the World: Alphabets, Syllables, Pictograms. Charles E. Tuttle
Nyikos, Julius. 1988. A Linguistic Perspective of Illiteracy. in Sheila Empleton (ed.) The Fourteenth LACUS Forum 1987. Lake Bluff, IL: Linguistic Association of Canada and the U.S., 146-73. Referenced in Coulmas, F. 1989 The Writing Systems of the World
Olson, David R. 1977 From Utternace to Text: The Bias of Language in Speech and Writing. HER, 47/3, 257-281. 1994. The World on Paper. London: Cambridge University Press.
Pitman, Sir James and St.John, John. 1969. Alphabets and Reading. London: Pitman. I would recommend this book as the best introduction to the history and nature of English spelling, and why it needs reform.
Read, C, 1986. Children's creative spelling. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. This is only part of the wealth of evidence that young children ‘naturally ‘ spell concisely and economically. e.g. ‘Th plan mad a fosd ladig at th epot’ [see invented spellings]
Riemer, John A. 1969. How they Murder the Second R. New York: Worth. Children taught ITA become avid readers and creative writers. In the traditional classroom, the child learns to spell 168 words in the first year. The dull rote learning drills tend to discourage if not destroy the child's curiosity and creativity. The book makes reference to Unifon.
Sampson, G. 1985. Writing systems. London: Hutchinson. [new edition published in 2000]
Scragg, D. G. 1974, A history of English spelling. Manchester University Press. A definitive history.
Shankweiler, D. & Liberman, I. (Eds.) 1989. Phonology and reading disability: solving the reading puzzle. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Sinclair, Upton. [see Furness for quote] Letter to President Kennedy urging him to decree that ll documents be printed in a simplified form of spelling and that a spelling academy be set up and subsidized. Most of TR's 300 spelling changes that he proposed in 1906 have been adopted in one way or another. Half are the preferred spellings of today [dialog, catalog], most of the other half are listed in the dictionary as alternate spellings. [thru, tho]. Only four do not appear in the Webster Collegiate Dictionary. The spelling reform board received their first check from Andrew Carnegie.
Skeat, Walter W. 1892. Principles of English Etymology . Oxford: Clarendon Press. The most eminent scholar on the origins of words in English spelling was a foremost leader of the spelling reform movement.
Smith, Philip. 1980. In defence of conservatism in English orthography. In Visible Language. XIV 2 pp 122-36.
Smalley, William A. (Ed.) 1964. Orthography studies: articles on new writing systems. Vol. VI. London: United Bible Societies. Most languages in the world have only had writing systems in the past 150 years. How have they been designed? Defining the dimensions for evaluating writing systems. Emphasizes the importance of status, prestige, and peer pressure in the adoption process.
Sweet, Henry. 1877. Handbook of Phonetics. Oxford
Sweet, Henry. 1880. Primer of Phonetics. Oxford
Sweet, Henry. 1900. The Principles of Spelling Reform. Oxford www.unifon.org/sweet-short.html
Tauber, A. 19??. A history of spelling reform. Publisher? (I have not been able to find this book, and would be interested to know about it.)
Tauber, A. 1963. Shaw on Language a collection of articles by Geo. B. Shaw on spelling and other language issues. NY: Philosophical Library (1963), London: Peter Owen Ltd (1965)
Tarnapol, L. & Tarnapol, M. 1981. Comparative reading and learning difficulties. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Taylor, I. & Taylor, M. 1983. The psychology of reading. NY: Academic Press.
Taylor, Insup (Editor), David R. Olson (Editor). 1996. Scripts and Literacy : Reading and Learning to Read Alphabets, Syllabaries and Characters. Kluwer Academic Publishers
Thorstad, G. 1991. The effect of orthography on the acquisition of literacy skills. British Journal of Psychology. 82: 527-537
Toffler, A. 1970. Future shock. London: The Bodley Head. To put the reader in a frame of mind to welcome spelling improvement.
Traeger, G. & Bloch, B. 1941. The Syllabic Phonemes of English. Language, 17: 223-246
Trench, Richard Chevenix. 1856. Changes in the spelling of English words. English, past and present. London: Parker & Son. This eminent cleric opposed spelling reform because he had a mystic belief in the living English spelling.
Trenití, G. N. The Chaos. A version of this long set of verses full of dreadful English spellings appears in the Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society 1989, Summer, 17-21, with a Cut Spelling version by Chris Upward. The poem is reprinted in Crystal's The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, p 273. online version
Twain, Mark. Carnegie Spelling Board P51322 C376 HRC
Upward, C. , Fletcher, P., Hutchins, J. & Jolly, C. 1990. A handbook to Cut spelling. Aston, UK. Simplified Spelling Society.
Upward, Christopher. (2nd Rev. ed.) 1996. Cut Spelling: Simplification of written English by the omission of redundant letters. Simplified Spelling Society.
Veblen, Thorstein. 1899. Theory of the leisure class. Republished 1925 by Allen & Unwin, London. Among other things, Veblen puts forward the waste in English spelling as an example of Conspicuous Consumption.
Venezky, Richard L. 1970. The Structure of English Orthography. The Hague: Mouton
Vernon, M. D. 1971. Reading and its difficulties. London: Cambridge University. Vernon concluded that the basic cause of reading difficulty was confusion.
Yule, V. 1986a. The design of spelling to match needs and abilities, Harvard Educational Review, 56: 278-297. Perhaps the best accessible account of how spelling reform could take account of the needs and abilities of the users of English spelling.
Yule, V. 1991. Orthography and reading: spelling and society. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Copy held by Simplified Spelling Society. Copies also available from the publishers of Dissertation Abstracts.
Valerie Yule. 1994. Problems of research in the design of English spelling. Visible Language 28.1. pp 26-47.
Webster, Noah 1789. Dissertation on the English Language.
Wijk, Axel. 1977. Regularized English: A Proposal for an Effective Solution. Stockholm: Almquist
Wilde, Sandra. 1997. What's a Schwa Sound Anyway?A holistic guide to phonetics... Heinemann.
Zachrisson, R. E. 1970. Anglic: An International Language. College Pk. Md. McGrath.
Reference Works
- Steve Bett's Quick Reference Dictionary
- Longman's Pronunciation Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary - www.m-w.com
- BBC Pronunciation Guide - several articles in the Journal of the Pure English Society
- Jones, Daniel. Pronunciation of English
List of publications available from the Simplified Spelling Society
--------------------------------------------------------------Simplified Spelling Society Constitution 1983
Personal Views (1—6, 1992—98), A4 format, £1 each.
**1: Bob Brown (1992)
Literacy & the way we spell English, 8pp, £1.
**2: Paul Fletcher (1992)Yurospel, 12pp, £2.
**3: Sinclair Eustace (3rd edition, 1992) SIST3M 2, 12pp, £2.
**4: Anthony Burns (1997) An Alfebet for de Milenyem!, 12pp, 2pp.
5: Ken Goodwin (1997) Yurabet, 12pp, £1.
6: George Lahey (1998) Inglish, the nou ABC’s, 12pp, £1.
7: Steve Bett (1998) Nu Folik An Alfabet for English, 12ppLeaflets
The Advantages of Rational Spelling
*1 The Saving of Time
*2 The Teaching would be Rational
3 The Gain to the Teaching to our Language and Literature, 1942, , 4pp,
**4 English as the Language of Universal Intercourse, 1941 (1913), £1.
Tough, Though, Thought, c.1986, £0.50.
Brown A R (Bob) The Shaw Alphabet Competition Some Background, 1991,
Introducing Cut Spelling, 6th ed. 1998, £0.50 / 10 for £1.
Introducing New Spelling, 1992, £0.50 or 10 for £1.
Introducing the Simplified Spelling Society, 6th ed. 1998, £0.50, or 10 for £1.
Modernizing English Spelling: Principles & Practicalities, 2nd ed. 1997, £0.50
or 10 for £1.
Aim & Objectives of the Simplified Spelling Society, with Six Axioms on
English Spelling, 1997, £0.50 or 20 for £1.Periodicals
*The Pioneer of Reformed Spelling 1926–? [extant 1/1 April 1926, 1/4
January 1927] 28pp.*News Sheet, Nos. 1—3, Vol.1 1974?.
**News Sheet 4, April 1975, Vol.1 No.4, 14 stapled foolscap sheets.
**News Sheet 5, January 1976, Vol.2 No.1, 32pp, £2.
News Sheet 6, July 1976, Vol.2 No.2, 32pp, £2.
**News Sheet 7, January 1976, Vol.2 No.3, 32pp, £2.
**Reading & Spelling, Vol.1, No.1, April 1976, 28pp, £2.
Newsletters, 1985—86 (editor Upward C)Simplified Spelling Society Newsletter, Summer 1985, 22pp, £1.
**SSS Newsletter, Autumn 1985, 24pp.
SSS Newsletter, Spring 1986, 28pp, £2.
SSS Newsletter, Summer 1986, 28pp, £2.Journals, 1st British Series (editor Upward C)
1987—1, 28pp, £2; 1987—2, 32pp, £2; 1987 32pp, £2.
1988—1, 36pp, £2; 1988—2, 36pp, £2; 1988 36pp, with
cumulative index, £2.
1989—1, 36pp, £2; 1989—2, 36pp, £2.
Newsletters, 1991 (editor Upward C)
April 1991, 6pp, £1; September 1991, 8pp, £1.
Journals, American Series (editor Ives K)
1992/1, 24pp, £2; 1992/2, 28pp, £2.
1993/1, 36pp, £2; 1993/2, 32pp, £2.
1994/1, 36pp, £2; 1994/2, 36pp, £2.
18—1995/1, 44pp, £2; **19—1995/2, 36pp.
Newsletters, 1992—96 (editor Brown A R [Bob])
April 1992, 4pp, £0.50; **July 1992, 4pp, £0.50.
**Jan. 1993, 4pp, £0.50; **Sept.1993, 6pp, £0.50.
**April 1994, 2pp, £0.50.
**March 1995, 2pp, £0.50; **August 1995, 12pp, £1.
April 1996, 12pp, £1.
Journals, 2nd British Series (editor Upward C)
**20—1996/1, 40pp, £2 (with cumulative index).
21—1997/1, 36pp, £2; 22—1997/2, 36pp, £2.
23—1998/1, 36pp, £2, 24—1998/2, 36pp, £5.
Newsletters, 1996— (editor Campbell A)
Decembr 1996, 6pp, £0.50; March 1997, 4pp, £0.50;
July 1997, 8pp, £0.50;**November 1997, 8pp, £1;
March 1998, 8pp, £1; July 1998, 8pp, £1;
Nov.1998, 8pp. £1.
Also available (not published by SSS)
Prices represent mailing costs only.
Brown A (1988) Homophones and Homographs in Thai, and their implications,
Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1988, 117pp, ISBN 3-8711891-1-1, £2.
Ives K H (1979) Written Dialects n spelling reforms: History N Alternatives,
Chicago: Progresiv Publishr, 112pp, ISBN 0-89670-004-6, £2.
Lindgren, H (1969) Spelling Reform: A New Approach, Sydney, Australia: Alpha
Books, 152pp, £2.
**Roberts, E B, Modernizing English – spel—ríd—ryt
spelling reform made easy,
Toronto 1937, 24pp, £2.
Rupert, A, various leaflets and pamphlets on spelling reform from a Canadian
perspective, £0.50p each.Upward, C (1988) English Spelling and Educational Progress, British
Association for Applied Linguistics / Linguistics Association of Great Britain
(Committee for Linguistics in Education): CLIE Working Paper Number 11,
28pp, £2.Upward, C (1993)Writing Systems: why and how they need to be studied, Aston
University: Institute for the Study of Language and Society (Aston Papers in
Language Studies and Discourse Analysis No.3), 22pp, £2.50.Upward, C (1996)English Spelng: th need for a syco-historicl perspectiv,
Aston University: Institute for the Study of Language and Society (Aston Papers
in Language Studies and Discourse Analysis No.4), 32pp, £2.50.Orders to Literature Secretary, Simplified Spelling Society, 61 Valentine Rd.
Birmingham B14 7AJ, England, tel: +44 (0)121 689 2597, fax: +44 (0)121 359
6153, email:
I have just put up on my OzIdeas Website a longish page of some
hundreds of good references prior to 1992,http://www.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/srefrens.htm
CATEGORIES
1. Nature of English spelling and literacy
2. Needs and abilities of learners, readers and writers
4. Historical, curious and funny pieces
5. Clues that reformers should consider
6. Spelling reform and reformers (not a list of proposals however)
Barkley, William. 1967. A 20th century look at the New English of 1066.
Spelling Progress Bulletin Summer. Chapter 8.Pitman, Sir James. 1975. Some principles governing improvement of the visible language. Spelling Progress Bulletin 15.1.
Yule V. 1984a. English as an international language, and its spelling. Language Monthly 8 24-25. Chapter 8
6. EXPERIMENTS
Carvell, Robert. 1975. Reading comprehension and regularized orthography. Doctoral dissertation. ERIC ED116165. Chapters 5 , 7 & 9 .
Kuçera, H. & Francis, W. N. 1967. Computational analysis of present-day American English. Providence, RI: Brown University Press. Chapter 9, Appendix.
Labov, W. 1970. The reading of the -ed suffix. In H. Levin & J. P. Williams. Basic studies in reading. NY: Basic Books. 372.41 L665B. Chapter 5.
Rayner, K. & Kaiser, J. 1975. Reading mutilated text. Journal of Educational Psychology 67: 301-306. Chapter 9.
Strange, 1979. The effect of orthographic anomalies upon reading behavior. Journal of Reading Behavior. 11: 153-161. Chapter 9.
Yule, V. & Greentree , S. 1986b. Readers' adaptation to spelling change. Human Learning 5: 229-241. Chapter 9.
Yule, V. & MacKay, C. K. Practice effects for adults and poor readers in reading text in a modified spelling . (Unpublished manuscript). Chapter 5, 9.
Yule, V. 1989b. Two experimental versions of 'cut' spelling. Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society. 3.2: 30. Chapter 9.
7. EXPERIMENTS IN REGULARISED SPELLINGS IN SCHOOLS
Lane, A. 1974. Severe reading disability and the Initial Teaching Alphabet. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7: 23-27. Chapter 6.
Martin, J. H. & Friedberg, A. 1986, Writing to read. NY, Warner Books. Chapters 6, 7.
Martin, John Henry & Friedberg, Ardy (1986) Writing to Read: a parents' guide to the new early learning program for young children, New York: Warner Books.
Martin, John Henry (1981) 'The evolution and use of a phonemically consistent alphabet' in Spelling Progress Bulletin. 21/4, pp 7-10.
Thackray, D. V. 1980. Readiness to read with i.t.a. and t.o. London: Chapman. Chapter 6.
Thackray, Derek. 1971. Reading for meaning with i.t.a and TO. London: Geoffrey Chapman. Chapter 6.
REFERENCES - CLUES TO REFORM
52 References up to 1991, under 18 hedings. References listed in other
categories are also relevant, of course.Note: For all of these see also:
Yule V(1991) Orthography and Reading: Spelling and Society, unpublished
doctoral thesis, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. UMI
Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48106. 1992.1416. Order
No.9231850. and
Yule V (1986) 'The design of spelling to meet needs and abilities' in
Harvard Educational Review, 56/3, pp 278 - 297.1. CHILDREN'S 'NATURAL' SPELLING q.v. especially Read and Yule
Justin B Rye, "Spelling Reform -- arguments against and for", JSSS 27-2000/1, pp19-22
http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ortho.htmlSome good countering arguments -- especially disabusing the idea that English spellings always reflect their histories -- ar given in this reprint of an earlier SSS publication:
_Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society_, "SSS Pamflet Nr. 3 'Dhe
Etimolojikal Arguement' bie William Archer", JSSS 27-2000/1, pp3-10Also notable for reasons for/against:
George Anderson, "VIPs also can be poor spellers", _Simpl Speling_, July 1998, p2David V Moseley, "Spelling Difficulties Limit Written Expression" JSSS 1992/2, p20
_Simpl Speling_, " `Most illiterate English children would succeed in other languages' ", November 2000, p7 [Report of Ken Spencer's address to the Annual General Meeting]
_Simpl Speling_, "Spelling change myths", March 2001, p3
Gwenllian Thorstad, "Literacy Skills of English and Italian Children",
JSSS 1992/2, pp21-22Christopher Upward, "German & English Spelling Difficulty Compared",
JSSS 1992/2, p22Further: The submissions that hav been made to literacy policy makers, noted earlier in this bibliografy, ar also good sources for reasons in favor of reform. Two in particular which giv many reasons ar the ones in JSSS 1993/1, pp3-8, and JSSS 2000/1, pp24-30. This bibliografy is found in: JSSS 1993/1, pp8-9
Some Web sites on Spelling Reform Topics
Here ar three sites with information about spelling reform in general, on various topics, plus links to related sites. These ar run, respectivly, by David Barnsdale, Steve Bett, and John Reilly:
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/
http://pages.whowhere.com/community/sbett/spel-link.html
http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/alt1.htm
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