... Regarding Sampson, "What's good is not new, and what's new is not good." English spelling is widely regarded as quasi-logographic (giving rise to the...
... Regis Philbin used to do commercials for "crisps" of some sort, and made fun of the difficulty of pronouncing the final cluster. [s] is problematic in...
... "Whole word" "vs." "phonics." Both, of course, are necessary, with the emphasis on phonics, since it gives you 87% (whence the figure?) of the language and...
... Like they say in the papers, "if it's news to you, it's news to us." At the time when I read the book, it was something I had not yet heard. ... There are...
... Yes, he has a tendency to not use footnotes. ... They're not deeply buried, and they're not hard to tease out -- even Halle managed to do it. And, of...
... When I hear a name or other word that I've never heard before, I immediately try to visualize how it is spelled. I understand this is fairly unusual, and...
Peter Daniels wrote: [PTD} English spelling is widely regarded as quasi-logographic I'm just realizing that, for the first time. It's something of a shock. ...
[NB]> One of the newer announcers on radio station WBUR in Boston is a young woman named Gina Cervetti (sp probably correct). When she spoke her own name on...
Peter wrote: "Whole word" "vs." "phonics." Both, of course, are necessary, with the emphasis on phonics, since it gives you 87% (whence the figure?) of the ...
Doug Ewell kirjoitti: When I hear a name or other word that I've never heard before, I immediately try to visualize how it is spelled. I understand this is...
... shock. As long as the terms 'logographic' and quasi-logographic' are used to describe Chinese and English writing systems the similarities in phonlogical...
Sorry, mostly off-topic, Yet Again, but imho of uncommon interest. Thanks to Seshat for her great patience and forbearance. To most Qalamites, this is probably...
... The more recent show "Between the Lions" very consistently teaches reading in terms of sounds. They have songs and whatnot about "short a" sounds, "long...
... Many a wise word is spoken in jest. The Oxford English Dictionary does list to give (one) wrong information as a possible meaning. ... That is listed too...
timpart@...
Jul 1, 2004 9:28 pm
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... a ... used ... in ... are ... Chinese ... Chinese ... reading ... It implies to me a lexical mapping rather than phonological and morphological mapping...
... Yes. "Logographic" means that what the symbol encodes is a word (a morpheme, to be more precise). Or, as C. F. Hockett put it, a logographic system is a...
... logographic? I ... useful ... problems ... This definition of logographic clears things up for me. I guess I missed Hockett. However it is not a...
... voiceless stops: Just like normal unvoiced stops, but with the stopped part prolonged (it's as if you were making a little break in your speech). Voiceless...
... seems ... (a ... Why can't I just skip Hockett altogether and say that Chinese is a syllabary and there is no logographic/phonographic dichotomy in writing...
... Review of *The World's Writing Systems*, in *Language* ... Nonexistent. An alphabetic system assigns symbols to segments. ... Individual units of Chinese...
... Because Chinese doesn't work like the world's other syllabaries. It's like calling animal communication "language," even though you would then have to come...
... Why call it "logographic" if it encodes morphemes rather than words? That merely confuses the issue when dealing with genuine logograms (which do exist,...
... (a ... words? ... This confuses me as well. Would it not be accurate to call the Chinese writing system a syllabary which maps a language with a relatively...
... What year was this? I wonder if this followed Defrancis, also Wong, who argued for the term morphosyllabary. ... alphabetic ... as ... I agree that in...
suzmccarth wrote:
> Why can't I just skip Hockett altogether and say that Chinese is a > syllabary and there is no logographic/phonographic dichotomy in >...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Jul 2, 2004 9:53 am
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... This sounds fine. ... This sounds silly... How can Egyptian writing be called a "syllabary" (whatever it does or does not distinguish semantically)? Even...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Jul 2, 2004 10:09 am
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Mark Shoulson wrote recently: The more recent show "Between the Lions" very consistently teaches reading in terms of sounds. They have songs and whatnot about...
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