03898nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-39307-5 DE-He213 20251030112002.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240422s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031393075 978-3-031-39307-5 10.1007/978-3-031-39307-5 doi P140-143.3 CFF bicssc LAN009010 bisacsh CFF thema Heitner, Reese M. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75472 Icons of the Alphabet [electronic resource] : Letter Names, Phonetic Notation and the Phonology and Orthography of English / by Reese M. Heitner. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXV, 388 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 /aɪ/ 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. . This book examines the names by which we refer to the letters of the English alphabet, arguing that these letter names provide unrivalled insights into the phonological structure of English, present and past, as well as the many peculiarities of English pronunciation and spelling. Classified either as contronyms, ambinyms or tautonyms, the modern phonological profiles of our ancient Semitic letter names reveal what is unique to English, what is fundamental to language and how letter names emerge as the semiotic product of interchanging languages combined with intralanguage change. This volume promises a much more extensive and deeper linguistic treatment of English letter names than has previously been attempted. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of historical linguistics, phonology and orthography, the history of English, semiotics, and language and literacy teaching. . Historical linguistics. 75473 Linguistics. Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology. 71945 Language and languages Orthography and spelling. 71943 Language and languages. 71944 Historical Linguistics. 75474 Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar. 73640 Phonology and Phonetics. 71949 Orthography. 71947 Language History. 71948 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031393068 Printed edition: 9783031393082 Printed edition: 9783031393099 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39307-5 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 59254 59254