Chapter 5 Acquiring And Teaching A New Writing System
1. Chapter 5: Acquiring and Teaching a New Writing System Vivian Cook Summarized by Dolphin Lin
2.
3.
4. Two Main Writing System of the World Alphabetic: Spanish, Russian, Hindi etc Consonantal: Arabic, Persian, Urdu, etc. C haracter-based: Chinese, Japanese (kanji) Syllabic: Japanese (kana), many Indian languages (Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati etc) Needs: – unvarying word forms, e.g Chinese – many thousands of characters Needs: – some phonological properties e.g. predictable vowels (Arabic) – small number of symbols 淼 ; 森 ; 驫 Morlock; priori incantatem; honorificabilitudinitatibus Meaning-based writing systems Sound-based writing systems