Chapter published in:
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
► pp. 189–208

The tone orthography experiment design

Published online: 14 July 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/swll.18.10rob
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