Number 57 (January 1989)

Originally published as:   Notes on Literacy. Number 57 (January 1989). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. © 1989 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

Orthography decisions, by Barbara Jean Dawson

1. Readability

2. Morphophonemic writing

3. Overdifferentiation

4. Underdifferentiation

5. Word space

6. Reduction, elision, and contraction

7. Abbreviations

8. Community acceptance of an orthography

Back Matter

References

Orthography matters, by Ursula Wiesemann

1. Tone and accent orthography

2. Reference dialect

3. Orthography revision

Back Matter

References

Linguistic context and literacy materials development ¹, by Patricia M. Kelley

1. Background

2. Linguistic context

A. Language status and classification

B. Language structure

C. Language awareness

D. Orthography

3. Changes in the literacy materials

4. Questions and closing comment

Back Matter

References

Using insights from the naive literate as a tool in the linguist's bag, by Roberta S. Hampton

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical or functional orthographies

3. Who will use the orthography?

4. Input from naive writers

5. Conclusion

Back Matter

References

Changing the Northern Khmer orthography, by Dorothy M. Thomas

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Preparation for the conference

4. Conference deliberations

5. Problems and decisions

5.1. Word level

5.2. Morphophonemically

5.3. Proper names

5.4. Loan words

5.5. Northern Khmer sounds and symbols

6. Update on the Northern Khmer orthography