Icons of the Alphabet

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ICONS OF THE ALPHABET.- Chapter 1. Another book on the alphabet?.- PART II: THE CONTRONYMS.- Chapter 2. Aitch: When a letter loses its phonetic 'ead but gains an orthographic foothold.- Chapter 3. Double U: When two /u/ make one /w/ and the phonetics of consonantalization.- PART III: THE AMBINYMS.- Chapter 4. The vocalic ambinyms: Pronouncing Ay as /e/, Ee as /i/ and I as /a?/ but Oh as /o/ and Yue as /ju/.- Chapter 5. Cee and Gee: The consonantal ambinyms and the digraph combination plus .- PART IV: THE TAUTONYMS.- Chapter 6. Vee and Zee: English fricatives find their voice.- Chapter 7. The vowel-consonant tautonyms: Syllabic consonants in Etruscan and English.- Chapter 8. Procrustean vowel length: The bimoraic weight of VC and CVV tautonyms.- PART V: CONCLUSION.- Chapter 9. Alphabetic iconography: A metalinguistic guide to phonologies and orthographies.

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• Idioma: história e obras gerais
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• Linguística histórica e comparativa

English;alphabet;sound change;evolutionary phonology;palatalization;transmutability;semiotics;Latin;French;Greek