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In most languages there's no immediate, bijective mapping between graphemes and phonemes. Some Indo-European languages such as French, Spanish, Italian, or Dut
by BjoernKW 5y ago
In most languages there's no immediate, bijective mapping between graphemes and phonemes.
Some Indo-European languages such as French, Spanish, Italian, or Dutch come quite close in that there is a one-to-one (in some cases context-sensitive) mapping between graphemes or grapheme clusters and the sounds they signify.
For English, famously, there's no such one-to-one mapping and for many cases pronunciation has to be memorised: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
- WalterBright 5y agoSomehow, English printed books do just fine without icons.
- BjoernKW 5y agoSure, they do. That has little to do with phonetics, though.
- WalterBright 5y ago> That has little to do with phonetics, though. I learned to read by using phonetics. It has a lot to do with the success of English text. English works well as a phonetic language. Just like the text I write here can be read by any second grader.