Orthographic depth
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orthographic-depth-213-2693244
title:
Orthographic depth
text:
The orthographic depth of an alphabetic orthography indicates the degree to which a written language deviates from simple one-to-one letter–phoneme correspondence. It depends on how easy it is to predict the pronunciation of a word based on its spelling: shallow orthographies are easy to pronounce based on the written word, and deep orthographies are difficult to pronounce based on how they are written. In shallow orthographies, the spelling-sound correspondence is direct: from the rules of pron
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description:
Degree to which a written language deviates from simple one-to-one letter-phoneme correspondence
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_depth
date created:
2009-09-04T16:38:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T09:03:14Z
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