Timeline for How do I decide if an "i" is pronounced long or short?
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| Apr 23, 2021 at 4:24 | comment | added | Adam Barnes | "Most languages that are written with an alphabet have strict pronunciation rules" the portion you quoted was about language as a whole, not just spelling. Also you're conflating learning with acquiring. You can learn that a "dog" is a four legged animal with fur that barks, but that's not going to help you understand a spoken sentence about a dog. When you acquire language, you can't NOT understand it, it becomes meaning before you even listen to it. | |
| Apr 22, 2021 at 15:18 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | It's also well-established that when people are learning to read, it is much better to teach them explicit rules about how characters are pronounced than to merely provide them large amounts of comprehensible input. But I admit that in this case (how to pronounce the English letter I), studying and memorizing lots and lots of rules may not be an efficient way to learn. | |
| Apr 22, 2021 at 15:17 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | 'There is no such thing as a "rule" for language, because languages are highly specific in unpredictable ways' – Most languages that are written with an alphabet have strict pronunciation rules, and knowing the spelling allows you to determine the pronunciation something like 99% of the time. English is unusual (and perhaps unique) in being an alphabetic language that has only a vague correspondence between spelling and pronunciation. | |
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| Apr 22, 2021 at 8:37 | history | answered | Adam Barnes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |