Assorted interesting things

[Gary Holton]

James,

Thanks for the reference. Those interested in writing tone might also
want to look at:

Bird, Steven (1999). Strategies for representing tone in African
writing systems: A critical review. Written Language and Literacy 2:
1-33.
— (1999). When tone marking reduces fluency: An orthography experiment
in Cameroon. Language and Speech 42(1): 82-115.

Our Africanist colleagues are very much ahead of us in this area. I'd
be interested to hear from others who have looked into this issue in
Athabascan languages. My paper on tone representation from the 2003
ALC can be downloaded at
http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffgmh1/docs/alc2003.pdf

Gary




On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:42 PM, James Crippen <jcrippen at gmail.com> wrote:
> In Written Language & Literacy 12:1 there is an article by David
> Roberts on "Visual Crowding and the tone orthography of African
> languages", pp. 140–155. This might be of interest to those of you who
> are involved with orthographic development and evaluation. Athabaskan
> languages certainly don't have the tonal complexity of many African
> languages, but diacritics do abound.
>