LL-L "Orthography" 2006.01.09 (02) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 09 January 2006 * Volume 02
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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2006.01.08 (04) [E]

> From: heather rendall <HeatherRendall at compuserve.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2006.01.08 (02) [E]
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> Message text written by INTERNET:lowlands-l at LOWLANDS-L.NET
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>> o    evidence from psychology suggest that many
>
>         of the irregularities in English spelling make
>         reading easier: for example, when homophones
>         are spelled differently the information is
>         processed slightly faster by the reader;<
>
> Sandy
> Can you possibly point me/us in the direction of this research please.
> Sounds v interesting.

There's no further enlightenment in this book. You could read this: 
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~kellym/homonym.html which is the best I could 
manage by googling.

However, be careful when you launch into it from our discussion, because 
it's not just about orthography! Although it starts by talking about 
homonymous words causing comprehension problems, this seems to me to 
mean homonyms in speech. Later on it mentions heterographic homonyms as 
being a disambiguating factor in reading.

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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