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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Writing Systems"”.
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The Effects of Chinese and Spanish Writing Systems on L2 English Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition
<p>Writing systems vary in how they relate graphemes to phonology and meaning. Consequently, each writing system makes unique demands on native speakers, resulting in different cognitive processes. This research examines the visual and phonological processes used by native Spanish and Chinese …
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Writing of the Americas
… paper aims to highlight the different forms of writing within the Americas, establish connections between the systems, and discuss the impact of European colonization. Writing systems within the American Continents contain a vast array of different indigenous systems that first started around …
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Umbilicus Runicus: Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy
… correspondences, direction of writing, use of ligatures and interpuncts, use of double letters, and the orthographic treatment of nasals without any regard to time, striking similarities appear. These similarities occur between the runes on the one hand and the archaic Greek and …
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"The Treatment of Consonants in the ""ambraser Heldenbuch"""
… attempts of the last century to reconcile the writing systems of vastly different dialects with a supposed standard language. Recent scholarship has shown that orthographies of the period can be shown to be systematic if individual dialects are treated separately.
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ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚA ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ: a linguistic analysis of the early Greek alphabets
Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’, instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic Greece. The research concerning the so-called epichoric scripts was …
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The Origins of Writing, and its Relation to Art on Bronze Age Crete
… narrative behind the earliest appearance of writing in Europe. A radical new framework of interpretation, recognising art and writing as different ends of a single mode of graphic expression, is applied to the material culture of Early to Middle Bronze Age Crete as a context-conscious …
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Sculpting the narrative : the material practice of Epi-Olmec art and writing
… using one of the most complicated hieroglyphic systems known from the ancient world. In the 2nd century CE, a group of such literate sculptors carved the La Mojarra Stela, one of the great masterworks of ancient Mesoamerican stone sculpture. This two meter tall monument bears a richly carved …
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A survey of those in the U.S. Deaf community about reading and writing ASL
… background, opinions about reading and writing ASL, and opinions on specific writing systems. Sixty-two surveys were analyzed using Chi-square Goodness of Fit tests and Tests of Independence.</p> <p>The results show that those who desire to read and write ASL are in the minority. The …
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How Do Children Learn New Words in A Second Language? The Role of Self-Teaching in Orthographic Learning
… a robust means of written word learning across writing systems in L1. But very limited research has examined self-teaching in L2. The overarching aim of my dissertation is to: (1) identify the challenges of self-teaching in L2; (2) examine potential optimal learning conditions that can help L2 …
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The Development of Taiwanese Children's Ability to Infer Orthographic Information From Semantic and Phonological Information
… principles to help their reading and writing development in Chinese, a non-alphabetic language. The relationship between the acquisition of phoneme-grapheme correspondence and reading ability has been well-established for alphabetic orthographies. In Chinese, characters are the basic …
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Implementing linguistic text anticipation in a writing device for the disabled
… rate is, however, prohibitively slow for writing and impractical for conversation. A variety of techniques is used to improve this rate and range from static letter matrices to more sophisticated methods in which words and phrases are anticipated. Although many anticipatory methods claim …
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An informatics system for exploring eye movements in reading
… visualize and analysis a wide range of writing systems including spaced and unspaced scripts, which can be presented in proportional or non-proportional font types. The aim of the system is to accelerate the life cycle of a reading experiment from design through analysis. Several …
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Enhancing Chinese Heritage Language Education Through Technology: A Two-Part Design and Evaluation Study
… of addressing disconnects between sound and writing systems and providing offline functionality for rural access. The second manuscript adopts a design and development research methodology to create a research-based CHL Teacher Toolkit. Recognizing the challenges of "material overload" and …
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The Interplay of Linguistic and Cognitive Factors in Predicting Reading Comprehension: A Case of Primary School Children from the United Kingdom and China
… linguistic features of the English and Chinese writing systems, the variations in the contributions were also compared. Two studies were carried out. Study 1 examined the role of linguistic (vocabulary, syntactic awareness, and paragraph comprehension) and cognitive (executive functions and …
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Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere
… the representation of speech in natural language writing systems. This thesis constructs a theoretical model of linguistic phenomena encountered in the psychedelic sphere for the field of altered states of consciousness research (ASCR). The model is developed from a neurophenomenological …
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Werkzeuge zur flachen Annotation von Transkriptionen gesprochener Sprache
… transcribed material and support most existing writing systems. Existing data models are distributed on an axis between two poles. The one pole consists of a model where language is seen as a hierarchical structure in which the down most layer represents the actual textual content (OHCO, Ordered …
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La comprensión lectora en Braille y los procesos psicológicos en personas con discapacidad visual
In recent years, the number of studies on the comprehension and speed of reading in braille has increased, from a cognitive approach, in order to improve the quality of life, and educational inclusion of people with visual disabilities. The objective of the systematic review was to identify the …
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Systems Thinking and Hybrid Learning: An Exploration of Complexity Theory in an Undergraduate Writing Classroom
… Tech, ALCE 3624: Communicating Agriculture in Writing is a hybrid delivery undergraduate writing course. The purpose of this study was to explore the system of hybrid learning in this course at a land grant university. This research used a qualitative methodology with a case study approach. …