digraphs and sorting

[Arnaud]

Le 29/07/2012 18:34, Marianne Mithun a écrit :
> I was actually talking about the native speakers themselves.
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> Marianne
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ok
then the issue is more that they lack some awareness and training,
After all we learn to speak well before we ever hear about consonants 
and vowels and syllables...

A.
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> --On Sunday, July 29, 2012 6:31 PM +0200 Arnaud 
> <fournet.arnaud at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> A.
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