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...

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....

Spelling of cross-linguistically very similar nonwords was compared in 115 Danish and 77 Icelandic children (primarily 3rd and 4th graders). Danish children made more errors than Icelandic children on word medial consonant doublets and on word initial consonant clusters, even when the groups compared were matched on simpler spelling tasks. These results suggest that the acquisition of phonemic ...

Many studies have investigated the production and perception of second language learners. However, very few of them have discussed the effect of orthography. Although Mandarin and Cantonese share the same orthographic system, the phonological systems of the two languages are quite different. This preliminary study investigates the production and perception of Mandarin tones by Cantonese learner...

Orthographies vary in the degree of transparency of spelling-sound correspondence. These range from shallow orthographies with transparent grapheme-phoneme relations, to deep orthographies, in which these relations are opaque. Only a few studies have examined whether orthographic depth is reflected in brain activity. In these studies a between-language design was applied, making it difficult to...