A Transitional Orthography For Northern Canadian Native Languages

A phonemic orthography poses serious problems for students from oral cultures, in part due to the very structure of such orthographies and in part due to negative transference from English spelling habits. A syllabic orthography minimizes the structural problems at the level of decoding, but is an o...

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Main Author:	Proulx, Paul
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1988-01-01
Series:	Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
Subjects:	Indians of North America > Canada > Languages > Orthography and Spelling
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1808/629

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spelling	doaj-d6aecd5008c24622b14010f7f88399962020-11-25T02:04:48ZengUniversity of Kansas, Department of LinguisticsKansas Working Papers in Linguistics2378-76001988-01-011315115710.17161/KWPL.1808.629A Transitional Orthography For Northern Canadian Native Languages Proulx, PaulA phonemic orthography poses serious problems for students from oral cultures, in part due to the very structure of such orthographies and in part due to negative transference from English spelling habits. A syllabic orthography minimizes the structural problems at the level of decoding, but is an obstacle to morpheme recognition and hence grammatical analysis. Early exposure to syllabics, followed by a gradual shift to a phonemic Roman alphabet, may be the most advantageous approach to Native literacy where grammatical analysis is one of its aims. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/629Indians of North America-- Canada-- Languages-- Orthography and Spelling
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series	Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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description	A phonemic orthography poses serious problems for students from oral cultures, in part due to the very structure of such orthographies and in part due to negative transference from English spelling habits. A syllabic orthography minimizes the structural problems at the level of decoding, but is an obstacle to morpheme recognition and hence grammatical analysis. Early exposure to syllabics, followed by a gradual shift to a phonemic Roman alphabet, may be the most advantageous approach to Native literacy where grammatical analysis is one of its aims.
topic	Indians of North America-- Canada-- Languages-- Orthography and Spelling
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A Transitional Orthography For Northern Canadian Native Languages

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