Assorted interesting things

[Anthony Webster]

Thanks for the link to your paper. Best, akw

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Gary Holton <gmholton at alaska.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>



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