digraphs and sorting

[Arnaud]

Le 29/07/2012 18:14, Marianne Mithun a écrit :
> I have to agree completely. In my experience, especially people who 
> are already literate in a language without distinctive tone or written 
> vowel length (such as English) often have a very hard time writing 
> tone, even though they perform it flawlessly.
>
> Marianne Mithun 
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This is quite surprising,
I tend to think that if you can master tones in a language (as well as a 
native speaker) then you have no problem telling which one is in which word.

A.