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Orthography and Identity in Cameroon [PDF]
, 2001 The tone languages of sub-Saharan Africa raise challenging questions for the design of new writing systems. Marking too much or too little tone can have grave consequences for the usability of an orthography.
Bird, Steven
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Learning words in a new language: orthography doesn't always help [PDF]
, 2013 Previous studies have shown that orthography is activated during speech processing and that it may have positive and negative effects for non-native listeners.
Escudero, Paola +2 more
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Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Slavica Wratislaviensia, 2023 In this article the author investigates the main codified (prescriptive) and non-codified (descriptive) changes in the use of case endings of nouns that occurred in the Ukrainian literary language during the first two decades of the 21st century.
Larysa Kolibaba
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Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems [PDF]
, 1999 Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English (zero marking).
Bird, Steven
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Knowledge of Mathematical Symbols Goes Beyond Numbers
Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2020 The written language of mathematics is dense with symbols and with conventions for combining those symbols to express mathematical ideas. For example, reading a factored polynomial function such as f(x) = x²(2x + 15) requires the knowledge that ...
Heather Douglas +3 more
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17TH CENTURY ESTONIAN ORTHOGRAPHY REFORM, THE TEACHING OF READING AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS; pp. 365–384 [PDF]
Trames, 2011 Literary languages can be divided into those which are more transparent or less transparent, based on phoneme-grapheme correspondence. The Estonian language falls in the category of more transparent languages; however, its development could have pro ...
Aivar Põldvee
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Orthographic input and phonological representations in learners of Chinese as a foreign language. [PDF]
, 2006 This paper provides evidence that the second language orthographic input affects the mental representations of L2 phonology in instructed beginner L2 learners. Previous research has shown that orthographic representations affect monolinguals' performance
Bassetti, Benedetta
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ALGUMAS REFLEXÕES SOBRE O INÍCIO DA ORTOGRAFIA DA LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA
Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 The beginning of the Romance Languages writing provides good data for the study of writing systems in general and orthography in particular. The study of this subject is relevant also for the research in Historical Linguistics.
Luiz Carlos Gagliari
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When marking tone reduces fluency: an orthography experiment in Cameroon [PDF]
, 1999 Should an alphabetic orthography for a tone language include tone marks? Opinion and practice are divided along three lines: zero marking, phonemic marking and various reduced marking schemes.
Bird, Steven
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Arabic-Java Writing System: How Javanese Language Adopts Arabic Script
Izdihar, 2021 Borrowing script happens throughout history of languages. Long before we know Latin script, Javanese has already adopted Arabic script. However, Java language deals with problematic adaptation due to distinctive sound system among those two languages ...
Fakron Jamalin, Asma Abdul Rahman
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