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Berg, Kristian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
What determines consonant doubling in English? This question is pursued by using a large lexical database to establish systematic correlations between spelling, phonology and morphology. The main insights are: Consonant doubling is most regular at morpheme boundaries. It can be described in graphemic terms alone, i.e. without reference to…
Descriptors: English, Phonemes, Correlation, Morphology (Languages)

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