Read the passage and
identify the phenomenon each text or extract tells about. Choose
the phenomena from the list coming after the
text.
Text 4
«…To many it seemed that the pronunciation of English had moved
so far from its visual representation that a new alphabet was
needed, and in the sixteenth century we have the first attempts to
"reform" English spellings, a movement still active today. In 1569
John Hart (in his Orthographie) went so far as to devise a
new phonetic alphabet to remedy what he considered a fatal flaw in
our system of language. (His alphabet and the work of other
language reformers provides us with our best evidence for the
pronunciation of English in his time) …»