Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages
Edited by David Roberts and Stephen L. Walter
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] 2021. xxii, 375 pp.
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Titles
Subjects Other African languages | Phonology | Writing and literacy
Units of Language – Units of Writing
Edited by Terry Joyce and David Roberts
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 15:2 (2012) v, 140 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Articles
2022 The contribution of full tone marking to oral reading fluency and comprehension in Yoruba and Ife Written Language & Literacy 25:2, pp. 253–282 | Article
Orthographic depth is a key concept in literacy acquisition and can be measured separately for completeness, simplicity and consistency. The first of these is pertinent to discussions about whether tone should be marked in African orthographies, because a zero tone representation is relatively… read more
2021 Chapter 3. Nateni Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 43–60 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 8. Ife Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 143–156 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 7. Idaasha Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 127–142 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 15. Tone orthography and tone writing accuracy Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 265–278 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 14. Tone orthography and oral reading comprehension Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 249–264 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 13. Tone orthography and tonal oral reading accuracy Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 235–248 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 12. Tone orthography and general oral reading accuracy Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 221–234 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 11. Tone orthography and oral reading speed Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 207–220 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 10. The tone orthography experiment design Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 189–206 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 9. Elip, Mmala and Yangben Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 157–186 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 2. Tem Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 27–42 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 16. Epilogue Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 279–304 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 5. Eastern Dan Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 85–106 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 1. Introduction Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 4. Mbelime Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David and Stephen L. Walter (eds.), pp. 61–84 | Chapter
2014 Review of Mumin & Versteegh (2014): The Arabic script in Africa: Studies in the use of a writing system The architecture of writing systems, Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop (eds.), pp. 308–314 | Review
2013 A tone orthography typology Typology of Writing Systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 85–112 | Article
Discussions about tone orthography have long been hampered by imprecise terminology. This article aims to bring clarity by means of an explicit typology composed of six parameters. Each parameter is defined by a choice: domain, target, symbol, position, density, and depth. The orthographer assesses… read more
2012 Writing grammar rather than tone: An orthography experiment in Togo Units of Language – Units of Writing, Joyce, Terry and David Roberts (eds.), pp. 226–253 | Article
Some orthographies represent tone phonemically by means of diacritics; others favor zero marking. Neither solution is entirely satisfactory. The former leads to graphic overload; the latter to a profusion of homographs; both may reduce fluency. But there is a ‘third way’: to highlight the grammar… read more
2012 Introduction to special issue on ‘Units of Language – Units of Writing’: A key relationship for writing systems research Units of Language – Units of Writing, Joyce, Terry and David Roberts (eds.), pp. 147–152 | Article
2011 A tone orthography typology Typology of writing systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 82–108 | Article
Discussions about tone orthography have long been hampered by imprecise terminology. This article aims to bring clarity by means of an explicit typology composed of six parameters. Each parameter is defined by a choice: domain, target, symbol, position, density, and depth. The orthographer… read more
2009 Visual Crowding and the tone orthography of African languages Written Language & Literacy 12:1, pp. 140–155 | Article
The effect of Crowding has long been recognised by cognitive psychologists engaged in examining the reading process. Yet it is not generally taken into account by most field linguists involved in the development of tone orthographies for emerging African languages. True, there is a general… read more
2008 The two Kabiye orthographies: A sociolinguistic and linguistic comparison Written Language & Literacy 11:1, pp. 49–72 | Article
Two orthographies have been developed for Kabiye, a Gur language spoken mainly in Togo. The first aim of this paper is to provide an accurate historical summary concerning their development, teasing out some of the sociolinguistic issues which led to their separate evolution. Following this, I… read more