Regarding prosody, the problem I undertook in respelling English 
phonetically was how to show the stressed syllable.  The apostrophe was not 
good because that was needed for glottal stops.

I chose putting a double consonant BEFORE the stressed vowel.  The default 
stress is the first syllable and if a double consonant is present, stress 
shifts to the vowel after the double consonant.

I find that this is a real trend in English (like desert/dessert).  For 
instance, for words that have two double consonants, like accommodate, 
around a stressed vowel, an analysis of spelling errors shows that 75% of 
the time the second double consonant is dropped.  ref truespel book 4, 
authorhouse.com.  This works well because in parsing it puts the double 
consonant in the stressed syllable.

Of interest is that the Simplified Spelling Society is about to release to 
the world it's respelling of English.  It is built around the silent (magic) 
e, and puts the double consonants after the stressed vowel.

Tom Z



See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.





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>Subject: Workshop Announcement: Speech Prosody in Atypical Populations
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:59:18 +0100
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>SPEECH PROSODY IN ATYPICAL POPULATIONS
>
>Monday 2nd April 2007, University of Reading
>
>www.rdg.ac.uk/epu/cls_event.htm
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>Abstracts are invited from those working on speech prosody in atypical 
>populations for this one day event, organised by Dr Jane Setter and Dr 
>Vesna Stojanovik, Department of Clinical Language Sciences, School of 
>Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences. Papers reporting on therapy or 
>management of prosodic disorders as well as empirical papers reporting on 
>speech prosody in atypical populations are welcome.
>
>The aim of the workshop is to bring together Clinical Linguists and 
>Phoneticians and Speech and Language Therapists in order to highlight the 
>issues in researching and remediating prosodic disorders, and discuss the 
>latest findings, in this often neglected area of research and clinical 
>concern.
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>KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr Sue Peppé, Queen Margaret University College, 
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>Early bird registration by 5 Feb 2007: General £30, Student £15
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>More details and a registration form can be found on the website: 
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>Abstracts are invited for 15 minute oral papers, 30 minute workshops, or 
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>The deadline for submission of abstracts is Sunday 31st December 2006. We 
>aim to let you know by 19th January 2007 whether your submission has been 
>accepted.