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Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Lexicon
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Bird, Steven. - : Linguistic Data Consortium, 2003. : https://www.ldc.upenn.edu, 2003
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Multidimensional exploration of online linguistic field data
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When marking tone reduces fluency : an orthography experiment in Cameroon
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-26) ; Steven Bird's publications are available at http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb/home/publications.html ; Published in 1999 in Language and Speech 42:83-115 ; Should an alphabetic orthography for a tone language include tone marks? Opinion and practice are divided along three lines: zero marking, phonemic marking and various reduced marking schemes. This paper examines the success of phonemic tone marking for Dschang, a Grassfields Bantu language which uses tone to distinguish lexical items and some grammatical constructions. Participants with a variety of ages and educational backgrounds, and having exposure to the orthography were tested on location in the Western Province of Cameroon. All but one had attended classes on tone marking. Participants read texts which were marked and unmarked for tone, then added tone marks to the unmarked texts. Analysis shows that tone marking degrades reading fluency and does not help to resolve tonally ambiguous words. Experienced writiers attain an accuracy score of 83.5% in adding tone marks to a text, while inexperienced writers score a mere 53 %, which is not much better than chance. The experiment raises serious doubts about the suitability of the phonemic method of marking tone for languages having widespread tone sandhi effects, and lends support to the notion that a writing system should have 'fixed word images'. A critical review of other experiemtnal work on African tone orthography lays the groundwork for the experiment, and contributes to the establishment of a uniform experimental paradigm
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Functional literacy--Africa; phonetics; Tone (Phonetics); writing systems; Yemba language; Yemba language--Orthography and spelling--Cameroon
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URL: http://cogprints.org/2173/00/lgsp42.pdf
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When marking tone reduces fluency: an orthography experiment in Cameroon
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Tonal variation in the Bamileke Dschang noun associative construction and verb paradigms
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Dshang syllable structure and moraic aspiration
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Bird, Steven. - : Centre for Cognitive Science, The University of Edinburgh, 1996
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