
TL;DR
Annotated English introduces a diacritical system that unambiguously represents pronunciation without altering original text, aiding learning and reading of English with minimal annotation frequency.
Contribution
It proposes a novel, rule-based annotation system that preserves original text and facilitates easier learning of English pronunciation despite many exceptions.
Findings
Annotations do not alter original text.
Any text can be annotated without increasing size.
Readers can learn annotations quickly and apply to other texts.
Abstract
This document presents Annotated English, a system of diacritical symbols which turns English pronunciation into a precise and unambiguous process. The annotations are defined and located in such a way that the original English text is not altered (not even a letter), thus allowing for a consistent reading and learning of the English language with and without annotations. The annotations are based on a set of general rules that make the frequency of annotations not dramatically high. This makes the reader easily associate annotations with exceptions, and makes it possible to shape, internalise and consolidate some rules for the English language which otherwise are weakened by the enormous amount of exceptions in English pronunciation. The advantages of this annotation system are manifold. Any existing text can be annotated without a significant increase in size. This means that we can…
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Taxonomy
TopicsNatural Language Processing Techniques · Lexicography and Language Studies
