LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Rational Basis Review, Phonetic Transcription, Lexicography
3 Apr 2016
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More tradiional, involves wriing down informaion about the language. Aciviies that reverse language loss: steps of revitalizaion/stages of language vitality. Only older adults are speakers: teacher-apprenice method of passing on the language. Network of acive users of spoken language. Habitual use of spoken language in informal contexts, e. g. in the family. Use in government: two examples of issues that illustrate how linguists and speakers interact: Most languages don"t have a wriing system. Speakers of languages with no orthography most commonly ask linguists to helps them devise a wriing system. Orthography design: literacy in the vernacular presupposes orthography (wriing system) A mixture of alphabeic and sylabic: canadian aboriginal syllabics. Used by cree, ojibwe, blackfoot, inukitut, several athabaskan languages. Invented by a missionary in 1840 for cree and ojibwe, quickly spread. Inluenced by pitman shorthand and devanagari (indian-syllabic system) System modiied to meet the needs of diferent languages and dialects. The character rotates to denote a diferent vowel sound.
