PREDICTING PRONUNCIATION FROM SPELLING (AND VICE VERSA)
Unit 7: Predicting pronunciation from spelling (and vice versa)
Unit 7 explores both the systematic and the unsystematic relationships between the written and spoken forms of English words.
Introduction
We believe it is important to know at least the main spelling patterns of each of the English phonemes because they can be used as predictors for pronunciation, although exceptions to general tendencies are also pointed out.