Language endangerment has been the focus of much attention and as a result, a wide
range of people are working to revitalize and maintain local languages. This book serves as …

Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new
orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English …

THE OBSESSION THAT has kept me energized for the 8 years of writing this book takes the
form of both anger and excitement. I've long been angry at how our present culture of …

The development and use of languages for official, education, religion, etc. purposes have
been a major political issue in many developing multilingual countries. A number of these …

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 …

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 …

Mot clés: Linguistique de l'écrit, orthographe du ton, homographie, ambiguïté
orthographique, sémiographie, phonographie, transparence, opacité, biunivocité, mixité …

Whether tone should be represented in writing, and if so how much, is one of the most
formidable challenges facing those developing orthographies for tone languages. Various …

Tone is a conundrum for linguists attempting to reduce African languages to writing.
Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental data indicate that not marking tone at all leads to …

L'inexistence de 'véritables' orthographes de nombreuses de nos langues est tout
simplement lamentable, c'est une lacune à combler en ces temps modernes. C'est …