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Lacking consonance?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2005

KEITH DAVIDSON
KEITH DAVIDSON
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Formerly a senior officer in a national examinations board, represents the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) on the joint specialist associations' Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLIE) in the UK.
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Abstract

Puzzled by Michael Bulley's ‘Consonantal beginnings’, in ET80 (Oct 04) who does admit to some difficulty in discussing initial consonant clusters in English, when he says: ‘The conventions of writing can mislead us about speech.’ While the restoration of the phonetic symbols in the ‘full and proper form’ of the article (ET80) now elucidates some of the puzzles in the previous version (ET79), difficulties remain in maintaining a clear distinction between the sound systems of English and the writing system.

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English Today , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 58 - 59
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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