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.
Stephen L. Walter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephen L. Walter plays a role.
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Subjects Other African languages | Phonology | Writing and literacy
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 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 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 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
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