Devin,
Thanks for the link. I'm actually after something that I think may
not exist. It would be similar in function to an IPA font, but with
regular English character pairs whose kerning would be reduced so that
they would represent a single visual unit, mirroring how they
represent sound. "Good" would be "G oo d" and "shallow" would be "sh
a ll ow." It would require tweaking the kerning between digraph
letter pairs and dipthongs to tighten them up, while keeping regular
spacing between these double letters, single letters, and words.
I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to create, but in teaching I find
that some children have a difficult time seeing that "sh" for example,
is not "s h" but rather its own phonetic unit. (A parallel: until
fairly recently, "ch" was the fourth letter of the Spanish alphabet,
though it was never represented with tighter kerning... I think the
Real Academia might have done away with that one, as well as the "ll",
at least for purposes of alphabetizing. (Wikpedia: In 1994, it ruled
that the Spanish consonants CH (ché) and LL (elle) would hence be
alphabetized under C and under L, respectively, and not as separate,
discrete letters, as in the past.)
The idea was to be able to present text to kids written with these
combinations emphasized while retaining a somewhat natural look.
Mark,
On Sep 29, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
On Sep 29, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Mark Swindell wrote:
Does anyone here know if there exists a font that combines the
letters
that make phonemes, be they digraphs, dipthongs, or just multiple
letters (oo, ee, ea)?
For example, the word "cough" would have three phonemic chunks: c -
ou
- gh.
But the phonetic representations of the short o phoneme (ou) and
the /
f/ (gh) would be squished up against each other so they would be
recognized as a chunk, not as separate letters? Does this make
sense?
Not exactly sure what you are after. Would an IPA font do what you
wanted? You can get some very good ones from sil.org:
http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font
HTH
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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