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Professor Greg Francis 1/6/11Spelling!! It is true that English spelling does not seem to agreewith pronunciation!! a problem for learning how to read!!! Nor should it!! if words were spelled the way they were pronounced, wewould lose the visual connection between words!! slap --> slapped would become slapt!! write --> writing would become wridding!! National Public Radio --> NPR would become MPROther approaches!! There are other written forms of language that avoidsome of these problems!! The most sensible writtenlanguage is probably theKorean hangul!! Drawn characters indicatehow consonants arepronouncedPurdue UniversityPurdue University!! Speech!! Blurring!! Phonemes!! Articulation!! Coarticulation!! SpellingConclusionsNext time!! Learning language!! Babies!! Children!! Learning a second language!! When should you learn a foreign language?Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityPSY 200: Intro. to Cognitive Psychology 5