Truespel Phonetics and the Integration Revolution for English and

BeyondThe 7th International Conference on Formal

Linguistics Tianjin, China  (ICFL-7) (P123)

by Thomas E. Zurinskas, hello ~~nee hou~~Creator of Truespel Phonetics, Greenacres, FL

Links for presentation are at http://justpaste.it/icfl-7truespelhttp://justpaste.it/icfl-7truespel

What is Truespel?Truespel is a simple, phonetic spelling system based

on US English (1986) (= a practical science - IPA)

--Simple - no special symbols--Phonetic - only one “spelling” per sound--Spelling system - regular capitalization and punctuation.--Free - See http://truespel.com for the converter and

tutorials as well as videos at youtube.com (see “truespel”)Key Benefit - Truespel enables much

integration of vaarious literacy aspectsPresentation links are at http://justpaste.it/icfl-7truespel

Native speakers of English are mostly form USA

Which English is Predominant?

1. Links Phonics to Phonetics (Common Sprllings)2. Links Phonetics to Keyboard Typing (Writing)3. Links Phonetics to Reading Instruction Manuals4. Links to Clinical Vision, Hearing, Aptitude Tests5. Links Phonetics to Spreadsheets for Analyses6. Links to Pronunciation of Other Languages7. Links to Future Translation Guides - Aps8. Possibility of One Standard Phonetic Spelling

Integration Possibilities with Truespel

Phonetics focuses on one “spelling” (or symbol) per sound, as in a dictionary key. American English “phonabet” = 40 sounds

Phonics focuses on various letter-to-sound relationships = 140 spellings for the 40 sounds for the top 5k words of US English (See graph)

Truespel Links Phonetics and Phonics

Truespel links phonics with phonetics by:

- Picking phoneme spellings using the commonest English spelling of a sound, if possible. http://justpaste.it/truecriteria

- Picking phoneme spellings that least conflict with traditional spelling (“tradspel”). But for US English there are 40 sounds and only 26 letters. So letter pairs are used.- My poem about how the spellings of the 40 phonemes of US English were selected. http://justpaste.it/truepoem2

- The science of truespel http://justpaste.it/truescience

Integrating Phonics and Phonetics

Good readers learn the ability to sound out words according to the USANational Reading Panel of 2000

http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/

--Note that truespel can be used for ELL improvement in “turnaround situations”. Article at http://1.usa.gov/1n2h3Pb

shows a need for phonetic help here.

For Reading Instruction, Phonemic Awareness is Key

The “alphabetic principle” is that letters stand for sounds. Thus pronunciation can be “sounded out”. But English is not consistent. However,

Consonants 90% of the consonant sounds are spelled in their most popular way

Vowels 50% are spelled in their most popular way.

The worst thing about English is its Spelling.

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The Alphabetic Principle

--For pronunciation, ESL learners need only know how to say 40 sounds to be able to say any word in US English, even slang. http://www.screenr.com/XOn8

--Now learners can see phonetics via the free truespel converter to see what sounds to say for a word. See http://truespel.com

Integrating Phonetics for ESL

(Can you figure out what they are saying?)

IPA 1 (See converter at http://upodn.com)

ðæt kwɪk beʒ fɑks dʒəmpt ɪn ðə ɛr ovər itʃ θɪn dɒg. lʊk awt, aj ʃawt, fɔr hiz fɔjld ju əgɛn.

IPA 2 (See http://tinyurl.com/ipaconverter from modelino)

ˈðæt ˈkwɪk ˈbeɪʒ ˈfɑks ˈdʒəmpt ˈɪn ðiː ˈer ˈoʊvər ˈiːtʃ ˈθɪn ˈdɔg. ˈlʊk ˈæʊt, ˈaɪ ˈʃæʊt, fər ˈhiːz ˈfɔɪld ˈjuː əˈgen.

Two International Phonetic Alphabet Converters

~~That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thee air oever eech thhin daug. Look out, Ie shout, for heez

foild yue uggen, kree”aeteeng kae’aas (kreeyyaeteeng kaeyaas)~~

Note: tilde (~) means truespel phonetics. Use two tildes to bracket several words

That quick beige fox jumps in the air over each thin dog. Look out, I shout, for he’s foiled you again, creating chaos.

A Basic Tutorial of Truespel Phoneticsand All 40 Sounds of American English

Many names in “VOA pronunciation spelling” are at http://justpaste.it/voaspel I call this “capdash” notation.

AL QAEDA al K-EYE-(eh)-duh BEILIN, YOSSI YO- see BAY- lihn

BERGER, OSCAR O-skahr behr-ZHEHRR BERNANKE, BEN BEHN berr-NAN-kee

BOURGASS, KAMEL kah-MEHL boor-GAHS BUNDESBANK BOON- dehs-bah-nk

CALABRIA kah-LAH-bree-ah CALDERA, RAFAEL rah-f-eye-EHL cahl-DAY-rah

CEAUSESCU, NICOLAE nee-ko-L-EYE-eh chow-oo SHEHS-koo

CHAISIT SHINAWATRA CH-EYE-siht shihn-ah-WAHT CHEN XITONG CHUHN SHEE TAWNG

Note: the VOA “Intermediate” dictionary now has a truespel pronunciation guide via Truespel Book 3 (authorhouse.com)

The Voice of America Pronunciation Spelling

For phonics, we must identify how to spell the 40 phonemes of English in many tradspel forms.

Question. Can we find word frequency in print so that we can break them down into phonemes and assign the most common spelling to the sounds to represent phonemes?

Solution. Truespel analyzed a word frequency database to find the popularity of the spelling of sounds in print. This was easily done with spreadsheets.

Linking Phonetics to Phonics - Via Spreadsheets and Word Frequency

Colins Cobuild has collected data on word frequency in media. The database has:

Total most popular words = 10,281 Total instances = 16,324,276

Avg instances/word = 1,588Total phonemes = 59,964,522Avg phoneme/word on a page = 3.67Most frequent word “the” = 1 M

Word popularity is key - 70 words make up half the words in typical media print.

Theese 10k words make up about 95% of the words on a printed page.This is similar to “spoken” word frequency as well - if print is like speech.

Analyzing the Top 10k words

The sounds of each letter are analyzed athttp://justpaste.it/ayk

- The data represents the top 5k words or about 90% of words on a typical text page.

The frequency of letters in print is given at http://www.screenr.com/R0n8

Analysis of the Letters of the Alphabet and the Sounds They Spell - Via Truespel Spreadsheets

The database of the top 5k words of English is used via truespel to determine the frequency of the 40 sounds of US English in word counts of text of typcial media. (from truespel book4)

The link is http://justpaste.it/rankedphonemes Again with video at http://screenr.com/V0ZN.

--Truespel Book 1 analyzes a 57k word list (No popularity).--Truespel Book 4 analyzes a 5k word list for a count of 15.4M instances of popularity.

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Analysis of Ways English Sounds Are Spelled and Ranked Popularity

94% of upper secondary school students in the European Union are choosing English as their second language - Oct 13, 2013,

The Star Online http://bit.ly/1d1sbqD

In China in the next five years, all state employees younger than 40 will be required to master at least 1,000 English phrases, and all schools will begin teaching English in kindergarten.

ABC News Nov 15, 2010 http://abcn.ws/1joEnno

The World is Learning English

From Techcrunch 4-9-14 at http://tcrn.ch/1htVZtP

“The market opportunity in digital language learning is huge and growing at a clip. Some estimates put the total market value at $60 billion — but $50 billion of that is in English. And only 5-10% of that market is taking place online.

(See S. Korean high school ESL trials - http://justpaste.it/koreatrials

Developers of aps for truespel have a great opportunity

ESL Shows a Huge Need

Pacing should be at the level of understanding. For k-1 a few phonemes at a time per day is good as per synthetic phonics. Synthetic phonics starts out with about 12 sounds and goes on from there. I trust teachers to have a handle on this.

To make truespel easy, teachers can use the converter. For a demo on using the converter see http://bit.ly/R2fIUa

The phonetic spellings in the converter are standard dictionary pronunciation.

How to Teach Truespel Phonetics

Here are links to sites where I’ve written various languages in truespel and read them back – reading phonemes only.

https://justpaste.it/truelangs

(I speak only US English)

Uses for Various Languages

--Truespel is quality controlled by myself. It’s free for noncommercial use.

--For commercial applications you would need a release by me. I would need a final certification review.

--For a teacher to use truespel, there is no official test as of yet. The converter can check all truespel for most words. Use the link http://justpaste.it/course2 for training.

--Please contact me for discussion of methods and results tzurinskas@yahoo.com

Future for Using Truespel

The following will all link together via truespel1. First time phonetic “Writing” is enabled2. Dictionary Pronunciation Guides standardized3. Translation Guides (other languages)4. Reading Teachers Guides and Primers5. Clinical Hearing, Vision, Aptitude Testing6. ESL Guides7. Phonetics fits with keyboards for spreadsheets,

filenames, copy-paste

Finally Literacy Integration

Creator: Thomas E. Zurinskas, tzurinskas@yahoo.com

Location: Greenacres FL, Palm Beach CountyWebsite: http://truespel.com (FREE Converter)Free Tutorials: http://justpaste.it/course2Thank you Good night Good bye~Sisyu ~waa”aan ~tsiechen

List of presentation links: https://justpaste.it/ICFL-7truespel Truespel is virtual and free for noncommercial use

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