Many discussions of orthography development center on the later stages of such endeavors and on the impact of newly developed orthographies over an extended period of time. This paper focuses on the early stages of orthography development for Chuxnabán Mixe, a previously undocumented language, and the establishment of a working orthography in collaboration with the community for the purpose of ...

In modern linguistics where natural spoken language has been the main, if not the sole, target of research inquiry, one area in which orthography becomes as yet at issue is phonology. This should be the case because (a) writing systems encode phonological structure, syllables in particular, as shown in Gnanadesikan (2011), accordingly (b) the orthographical knowledge of a language may merge int...

In Malayalam there are two prevailing orthographies traditional and reformed both are written as digital text using same Malayalam encoding. Today the difference between them is manifested by both spelling and typographic conventions (i.e., renderings). Traditional orthography rendering accommodates a lot more C2-conjoining ligatures, while reformed orthography would instead use nominal con...

EDRS Price MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *English, Linguistics, *Linguistic Theory, Orthographic Symbols, Phonetics, *Phonetic Transcription, Phonology, Reading, *Reading Processes, Semantics, *Spelling Chomsky and Halle claim that an orthography based on their system of phonological representations of lexical items would be optimal. Their analysis assumes that (1) a reader need read only for meaning and n...

This investigation explored the hypothesis that patterns of acquired dyslexia may reflect, in part, plasticity-driven relearning that dynamically alters the division of labour (DOL) between the direct, orthography → phonology (O → P) pathway and the semantically mediated, orthography → semantics → phonology (O → S → P) pathway. Three simulations were conducted using a variant of the triangle mo...

LangGeh orthography is a new writing style proposed by [1]. For Han family languages such Taiwanese or Mandarin that uses Chinese character, LangGeh proposes writing with spaces in-between, using simple short phrase as a unit. This is in contrast to word-based orthography in English and sentence-based orthography in traditional Mandarin. Easy to add spaces, LangGeh has the advangtages of reduci...

The Deseret Alphabet was an orthographical reform for English, promoted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) between about 1854 and 1875. An offshoot of the Pitman phonotypy reforms, the Deseret Alphabet is remembered mainly for its use of non-Roman glyphs. Though ultimately rejected, the Deseret Alphabet was used in four printed books, numerous newspaper articles, s...

We consider one-sided innnite words generated via iteration by primitive substitutions on nite alphabets and provide bounds on the palin-drome complexity function as well as uniform bounds on the frequencies of palindromes in such words. As an application of these bounds, we prove that the strongly palindromic sequences in a primitive substitution dynamical system form a set of measure zero. 1....