Truespel Phonetics presentation at the Integration Convention on Formal Linguistics Dec 4, Tianjin china

1. Truespel Phonetics and the Integration
Revolution for English and Beyond
The 7th International Conference on Formal Linguistics
Tianjin, China (ICFL-7) (P123)
by Thomas E. Zurinskas, hello ~~nee hou~~
Creator of Truespel Phonetics, Greenacres, FL
Links for presentation are at
http://justpaste.it/icfl-7truespel
http://justpaste.it/icfl-7truespel

2. What is Truespel?
Truespel is a simple, phonetic spelling system based
on US English (1986) (= a practical science - IPA)
--Simple - no special symbols
--Phonetic - only one “spelling” per sound
--Spelling system - regular capitalization and punctuation.
--Free - See http://truespel.com for the converter and
tutorials as well as videos at youtube.com (see “truespel”)
Key Benefit - Truespel enables much integration of
vaarious literacy aspects
Presentation links are at http://justpaste.it/icfl-7truespel

3. Native speakers of English are mostly form USA
Which English is Predominant?

4. 1. Links Phonics to Phonetics (Common Sprllings)
2. Links Phonetics to Keyboard Typing (Writing)
3. Links Phonetics to Reading Instruction Manuals
4. Links to Clinical Vision, Hearing, Aptitude Tests
5. Links Phonetics to Spreadsheets for Analyses
6. Links to Pronunciation of Other Languages
7. Links to Future Translation Guides - Aps
8. Possibility of One Standard Phonetic Spelling
Integration Possibilities with Truespel

5. Phonetics focuses on one “spelling” (or
symbol) per sound, as in a dictionary key.
American English “phonabet” = 40 sounds
Phonics focuses on various letter-to-sound
relationships = 140 spellings for the 40 sounds
for the top 5k words of US English (See graph)
Truespel Links Phonetics and Phonics

6. Truespel links phonics with phonetics by:
- Picking phoneme spellings using the commonest English
spelling of a sound, if possible. http://justpaste.it/truecriteria
- Picking phoneme spellings that least conflict with traditional
spelling (“tradspel”). But for US English there are 40 sounds
and only 26 letters. So letter pairs are used.
- My poem about how the spellings of the 40 phonemes of US
English were selected. http://justpaste.it/truepoem2
- The science of truespel http://justpaste.it/truescience
Integrating Phonics and Phonetics

7. Good readers learn the ability to sound out words according to
the USANational Reading Panel of 2000
http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/
--Note that truespel can be used for ELL improvement in
“turnaround situations”. Article at http://1.usa.gov/1n2h3Pb
shows a need for phonetic help here.
For Reading Instruction,
Phonemic Awareness is Key

8. The “alphabetic principle” is that letters stand for sounds. Thus
pronunciation can be “sounded out”. But English is not
consistent. However,
Consonants 90% of the consonant sounds are spelled in their
most popular way
Vowels 50% are spelled in their most popular way.
The worst thing about English is its Spelling.
.
The Alphabetic Principle

9. --For pronunciation, ESL learners need only know how to say
40 sounds to be able to say any word in US English, even
slang. http://www.screenr.com/XOn8
--Now learners can see phonetics via the free truespel converter
to see what sounds to say for a word. See http://truespel.com
Integrating Phonetics for ESL

10. (Can you figure out what they are saying?)
IPA 1 (See converter at http://upodn.com)
ðæt kwɪk beʒ fɑks dʒəmpt ɪn ðə ɛr ovər itʃ θɪn dɒg. lʊk
awt, aj ʃawt, fɔr hiz fɔjld ju əgɛn.
IPA 2 (See http://tinyurl.com/ipaconverter from modelino)
ˈðæt ˈkwɪk ˈbeɪʒ ˈfɑks ˈdʒəmpt ˈɪn ðiː ˈer ˈoʊvər ˈiːtʃ ˈθɪn
ˈdɔg. ˈlʊk ˈæʊt, ˈaɪ ˈʃæʊt, fər ˈhiːz ˈfɔɪld ˈjuː əˈgen.
Two International Phonetic Alphabet Converters

11. ~~That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thee air oever
eech thhin daug. Look out, Ie shout, for heez
foild yue uggen, kree”aeteeng kae’aas
(kreeyyaeteeng kaeyaas)~~
Note: tilde (~) means truespel phonetics. Use two tildes to bracket several words
That quick beige fox jumps in the air over each thin dog. Look out,
I shout, for he’s foiled you again, creating chaos.
A Basic Tutorial of Truespel Phonetics
and All 40 Sounds of American English

12. Many names in “VOA pronunciation spelling” are at
http://justpaste.it/voaspel I call this “capdash” notation.
AL QAEDA al K-EYE-(eh)-duh BEILIN, YOSSI YO- see BAY- lihn
BERGER, OSCAR O-skahr behr-ZHEHRR BERNANKE, BEN BEHN berr-NAN-kee
BOURGASS, KAMEL kah-MEHL boor-GAHS BUNDESBANK BOON- dehs-bah-nk
CALABRIA kah-LAH-bree-ah CALDERA, RAFAEL rah-f-eye-EHL cahl-DAY-rah
CEAUSESCU, NICOLAE nee-ko-L-EYE-eh chow-oo SHEHS-koo
CHAISIT SHINAWATRA CH-EYE-siht shihn-ah-WAHT CHEN XITONG CHUHN SHEE TAWNG
Note: the VOA “Intermediate” dictionary now has a truespel pronunciation guide
via Truespel Book 3 (authorhouse.com)
The Voice of America Pronunciation Spelling

13. For phonics, we must identify how to spell the 40 phonemes of
English in many tradspel forms.
Question. Can we find word frequency in print so that we can
break them down into phonemes and assign the most common
spelling to the sounds to represent phonemes?
Solution. Truespel analyzed a word frequency database to find
the popularity of the spelling of sounds in print. This was
easily done with spreadsheets.
Linking Phonetics to Phonics -
Via Spreadsheets and Word Frequency

14. Colins Cobuild has collected data on word frequency in media. The database has:
Total most popular words = 10,281
Total instances = 16,324,276
Avg instances/word = 1,588
Total phonemes = 59,964,522
Avg phoneme/word on a page = 3.67
Most frequent word “the” = 1 M
Word popularity is key - 70 words make up half the words in typical media print.
Theese 10k words make up about 95% of the words on a printed page.
This is similar to “spoken” word frequency as well - if print is like speech.
Analyzing the Top 10k words

15. The sounds of each letter are analyzed at
http://justpaste.it/ayk
- The data represents the top 5k words or about 90% of words
on a typical text page.
The frequency of letters in print is given at
http://www.screenr.com/R0n8
Analysis of the Letters of the Alphabet and the
Sounds They Spell - Via Truespel Spreadsheets

16. The database of the top 5k words of English is used via truespel
to determine the frequency of the 40 sounds of US English in
word counts of text of typcial media. (from truespel book4)
The link is http://justpaste.it/rankedphonemes
Again with video at http://screenr.com/V0ZN.
--Truespel Book 1 analyzes a 57k word list (No popularity).
--Truespel Book 4 analyzes a 5k word list for a count of 15.4M
instances of popularity.
Analysis of Ways English Sounds Are
Spelled and Ranked Popularity

17. 94% of upper secondary school students in the European Union
are choosing English as their second language - Oct 13, 2013,
The Star Online http://bit.ly/1d1sbqD
In China in the next five years, all state employees younger than
40 will be required to master at least 1,000 English phrases,
and all schools will begin teaching English in kindergarten.
ABC News Nov 15, 2010 http://abcn.ws/1joEnno
The World is Learning English

18. From Techcrunch 4-9-14 at http://tcrn.ch/1htVZtP
“The market opportunity in digital language learning is huge and growing at a
clip. Some estimates put the total market value at $60 billion — but $50
billion of that is in English. And only 5-10% of that market is taking place
online.
(See S. Korean high school ESL trials -
http://justpaste.it/koreatrials
Developers of aps for truespel have a great opportunity
ESL Shows a Huge Need

19. Pacing should be at the level of understanding. For k-1 a few
phonemes at a time per day is good as per synthetic phonics.
Synthetic phonics starts out with about 12 sounds and goes on
from there. I trust teachers to have a handle on this.
To make truespel easy, teachers can use the converter. For a
demo on using the converter see http://bit.ly/R2fIUa
The phonetic spellings in the converter are standard dictionary
pronunciation.
How to Teach Truespel Phonetics

20. Here are links to sites where I’ve written
various languages in truespel and read
them back – reading phonemes only.
https://justpaste.it/truelangs
(I speak only US English)
Uses for Various Languages

21. --Truespel is quality controlled by myself. It’s free for
noncommercial use.
--For commercial applications you would need a release by me.
I would need a final certification review.
--For a teacher to use truespel, there is no official test as of yet.
The converter can check all truespel for most words. Use the
link http://justpaste.it/course2 for training.
--Please contact me for discussion of methods and results
tzurinskas@yahoo.com
Future for Using Truespel

22. The following will all link together via truespel
1. First time phonetic “Writing” is enabled
2. Dictionary Pronunciation Guides standardized
3. Translation Guides (other languages)
4. Reading Teachers Guides and Primers
5. Clinical Hearing, Vision, Aptitude Testing
6. ESL Guides
7. Phonetics fits with keyboards for spreadsheets,
filenames, copy-paste
Finally Literacy Integration

23. Creator: Thomas E. Zurinskas, tzurinskas@yahoo.com
Location: Greenacres FL, Palm Beach County
Website: http://truespel.com (FREE Converter)
Free Tutorials: http://justpaste.it/course2
Thank you Good night Good bye
~Sisyu ~waa”aan ~tsiechen
List of presentation links: https://justpaste.it/ICFL-7truespel
Truespel is virtual and free for noncommercial use
Truespel Phonetics Info