Initial Teaching Alphabet

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The Early Alphabet Teaching ( ITA or ita ) is a variant of the Latin alphabet developed by Sir James Pitman (granddaughter of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of the rapid writing system) in the early 1960s. It is not meant to be a phonetically sound transcription of English sound, or such English spelling reform, but as a simplified system of practical writing that can be used to teach English-speaking children to read more easily than can be done with traditional orthography. After the children learn to read using I.T.A., they will then start learning the standard English spelling. Despite reaching a certain level of popularity in the 1960s, it has become unused.

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The I.T.A. originally had 43 symbols, expanded to 44, then 45. Each symbol predominantly represents one English voice (including affricates and diphthongs), but there are complications due to the desire to avoid making I.T.A. need not be different from the standard English spelling (which will make the transition from I.T.A into standard spelling becomes more difficult), and to neutrally represent some English pronunciation or dialect. In particular, there is no I.T.A. separated. a symbol for English without sound pressure. schwa [?] , and schwa is written with the same letter used to write a full vowel sound. There is also some way of writing unstressed [?] / [i] and the consonat palatalized into [t?] , [d?] , [?] , [?] by suffix. Consonant letters written in double letters or "ck", "tch", etc. The order in standard spellings is written with many symbols in I.T.A.

The I.T.A. set of symbols including incorporated letters (typography ligatures) to replace the "wh", "sh", and "ch" digraph diagraphs of conventional writing, as well as ligatures for most long vowels. There are two different ligatures for "th" sound and no sound in English, and a special combined letter for "ng". There is a variant of "r" to end syllables, which are silent in non-rhotic accents like Received Pronunciation but not in rhotic accents like General American and Scots English (this is the 44th symbol added to I.T.A.).

There are two English voices each of which has more than one I.T.A. a letter whose main function is to write it. So is the [k] written with the letter "c" or "k" in I.T.A. depending on the way the sound is written in standard English spelling, as well as whether the [z] is written in regular "z" or with the letter "z" (which replaces the standard "s" spelling where it is a voice, and which visually resembles the "s" angle). The back of "z" appears prominently in many forms of singular nouns and the singular form of a single third person verb present (including is ).

Each I.T.A. letters have names, pronunciations that include sounds that become characters. For example, the name of the letter "z" behind is "zess".

Special fonts are created for I.T.A., whose characters are all lowercase letters. Where capital letters are used in standard spellings, I.T.A. just use a larger version of the same lowercase characters. The following chart shows the letters of the 44-character version of I.T.A., with the main pronunciation of each letter indicated by the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet underneath:

Note that "d" is made more different from "b" than usual in standard typography (which may be because in I.T.A. there is no "q").

Then the 45th symbol is added to accommodate accent variations, a diaphonemic writing form. In the original set, "hook a" or "two-storey a" (a) is used for vocals in "cat" (lexical set TRAP), and "round a" or "one-storey a" (?) For sounds in " father "(lexical set PALM). But lexically regulate BATH (words like "kinda", "dancing", and "half") patterns with PALM in some accents including Received Pronunciation, but with TRAP in others including General American. So the new character, "hook half a", is designed, to avoid the necessity of producing separate instructional material for speakers with different accents.

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Decline

Whatever the advantages of I.T.A. in facilitating children to learn to read English is often offset by some children who are unable to transfer their ITA reading skills effectively to read standard English orthography, and/or are generally confused by having to deal with two letters early in their year of reading. Certain alternate methods (such as connecting sound with color, so for example when the letter "c" writes [k] the sound will be colored in the same color as the letter "k", but when "c" writes [s] sounds it can be colored like "s", As in Words in Color and Color Story Reading ) are found to have some of the advantages of ITA without much disadvantage. Whereas I.T.A. was originally not intended to dictate a particular approach to teaching reading, it was often identified with phonics methods, and after the 1960s, pendulum theory of education swung away from phonics.

The I.T.A. remains interesting in discussions about possible English spelling changes. There are attempts to apply I.T.A. only use characters that can be found on the keyboard of the typewriter or in the basic ASCII character set, to avoid using special symbols.

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See also

• Phonics
• Shavian alphabet
• International Phonetic Alphabet
• Initial sound table
• Inventive spelling
• Unifon

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References

• Evaluating Alphabet Early Study: The Study of the Effect of Orthography in Reading and Writing by John Downing and William Latham (1967). OCLCÃ, 457399

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External links

• "Educashunal lunacie or wizdom?". BBC News Online . September 5, 2001 . Retrieved December 31 2014 .
• "Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.)". Omniglot . Retrieved December 31 2014 .

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