The roots of phonics
Subtitle: a historical introduction
By: by Miriam Balmuth.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co.; Brookes Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781598570366
Subjects: English language -- Phonology, Historical; English language -- Orthography and spelling; English language -- Pronunciation; Reading -- Phonetic method
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Foreword / Jeanne S. Chall; title: Foreword / Marilyn Jager Adams; title: Introduction; title: 1. Characteristics of Writing Systems; title: 2. Pictograms and Logograms; title: 3. Syllables; title: 4. Alphabets; title: 5. History of the English Alphabet; title: 6. Alternative Forms of Written English; title: 7. English Punctuation Marks; title: 8. The Ancestry of Spoken English: Indo-European Origins; title: 9. The Germanic Heritage; title: 10. Backgrounds of Old English; title: 11. Old English Pronunciation; title: 12. Backgrounds of Middle English: The Norman Conquest; title: 13. From Old to Middle English; title: 14. Middle English Pronunciation; title: 15. The Transition from Middle to Modern English; title: 16. Backgrounds of English Spelling; title: 17. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Authoritarianism: Backgrounds of the English Dictionary; title: 18. The English Dictionary from the Eighteenth Century on; title: 19. Transplanting the English Language to America; title: 20. Noah Webster; title: 21. Early American Spelling; title: 22. Alphabet Reform; title: 23. Simplified Spelling; title: 24. Rejection of the Alphabetic Code I: Horace Mann; title: 25. Rejection of the Alphabetic Code II: Through the Nineteenth Century to Today; title: 26. Emphasizing Regular Patterns First; title: 27. Nonphonemic Spelling Patterns as an Advantage of Written English; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix; title: Bibliography; title: Index.