PHONETICS #472504

(Upon being requested with the aid of using Director George Cukor to train Rex Harrison, the famous person of the 1964film ”My Fair Lady”, the way to behave like a phonetician:)“My instant solution become, ‘I don’t have a making a song butler and 3 maidswho sing, however I will let you know what I can as an assistant professor.’”Peter Ladefoged, quoted in his obituary, LA Times, 2004The debate among the “complete language” and “phonics”techniques of coaching readingto kids appears at very look like a merely current instructional debate. Likemany current debates, however, this one recapitulates an critical historic dialectic,in this situation in writing structures. The earliest independently-invented writing structures(Sumerian, Chinese, Mayan) had been especially logographic: one image representedan entire phrase. But from the earliest levels we will locate, maximum such structures containfactors of syllabic or phonemic writing structures, wherein symbols are used to symbolizethe sounds that make up the phrases. Thus the Sumerian image reported