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Variations in Spelling and the Special Case of Colloquial Contractions.
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Weber, Rose-Marie – Visible Language, 1986
Examines colloquial contractions (spelling variants such as "kinda" and "hafta") against a background of other variations in the English writing system with respect to their morphological identity, characteristic spelling patterns, and significance in print. Divides variants into those that are independent of speech variation…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Variation, North American English, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence