What is partial phonetic spelling

Question

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Answer 1

Actually, there aren't any "irregular" words in English, there are only words which don't conform to how most people were taught to read. Our writing system only partially represents our pronunciation..The system is governed by three things in this order:

1. structure; that is, base words such as "play" and affixes such as <re-> and <-ful>

2. Etymology (history of the spelling)

3. Phonology.

This is how linguists (people who study language) have understood English for years. It is our educational system and people who market reading programs who have convinced us otherwise. Also, the meaning of the term "phonetics" is actually "the physiology of how we produce sounds that we recognize as having meaning.

Answer 2

Even in irregularly spelled words, some of graphemes are pronounces phonetically.

The word 'said' is irregular, but the s and the d are pronounced phonetically. the ai is not pronounced as the digraph ai.

Some clues to the word are found in the letters used. Often students are taught to circle the irregular portion of the word with red.

Answer 3

I have not heard of the term "Partial Phonetic Spelling." However, there is Partial-Alphabetic Reader, which is a stage in learning to read. Below is the the different stages:

1. Pre-Alphabetic: Children know few if any letter-sound correspondences and are not ready to analyze words phonetically. They rely on learning words as wholes and guessing from partial visual cues and context. (PreK-K)
2. Partial-Alphabetic: Readers know some letter-sound correspondences, but can’t decode whole words. They might use partial phonetic cues—often 1^st or last letters—along with the context—to figure out words. (K-1)
3. Full-Alphabetic: Youngsters use a full decoding strategy to identify unfamiliar words—either phoneme by phoneme, or by analogy. (Grades 1-2)
4. Consolidated-Alphabetic: Students are more skilled at decoding and can recognize larger chunks—morphemes or syllables. (Grades 2-3+)