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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"writing system"”.
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Language Ideologies and Orthographies: Developing a Writing System for Than Ówîngeh
<p>The use of writing to represent the heritage language represents a contentious issue for many members of Puebloan societies in the American Southwest. Many community members resist the use of writing for this purpose on the grounds that it acts as a form of colonialism, while others accept the …
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The design and implementation of a display-oriented editor writing system
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1979.
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Chinese information processing
… It covers the following areas: the Chinese writing system, several popular Chinese encoding schemes and code conversions, Chinese keyboard entry methods, Chinese fonts, Chinese operating systems, basic Chinese computing techniques and applications.
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An architecture for a collaborative authoring system
… work by examining the area of collaborative writing amongst groups of people. The research brings together a number of disciplines, namely sociology for examining group dynamics, psychology for understanding individual writing and learning processes, and computer science for database, …
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Variasies in die verskrifteliking van Kaapse Afrikaans: ’n sosiolinguistiese ondersoek
… During my honors studies, I became aware that a writing system that accommodates Colloquial Afrikaans has not yet been designed. The question guiding this study is: what variations are there in the writing style of Kaaps and how does this affect the design of a writing system for Kaaps? Is the …
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The numeral system of Japanese Sign Language from a cross-linguistic perspective
… how the Japanese Sign Language (JSL) numeral system can be characterised with respect to aspects of the linguistic structure of JSL numerals at the phonological and morphological levels; to typological comparisons with other sign languages; and, finally, to sociolinguistic variation. Data for …
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Emergent literacy in Chinese: Print awareness of young children in Taiwan
… used their developing concepts about the Chinese writing system as linguistic strategies to help them read the print items. There were differences between the responses to the two task sessions in terms of semantic and pragmatic characteristics and use of information. The contextual clues appeared …
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English-Khmer medical dictionary
… Khmer language and its complex Sanskrit-based writing system.</p>
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An asynchronous circuit design language system
<p>"This paper presents a system for specifying the behavior of asynchronous sequential circuits. The system consists of a special purpose Asynchronous Circuit Design Language (ACDL), a translator and a flow table generation algorithm. The language includes many special features which permit quick …
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The PISHI Concept: A Technique for Increasing Inclusion in the Design of Open-Source Assistive Technologies
… on a particular case study: the Switch Activated Writing System (SAWS) that is in transition to an Open-Source project (OSSAWS). Analysis of the literature reveals the potential to leverage persona representations into OS AT. This thesis includes three RtD iterations which focus on successive …
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Pilot study of WrAP: A video-cued writing program with a computerized assessment component used to enhance the writing skills of students
… of this study was to ascertain if a video cued writing system will enhance students' writing skills by reinforcing the previously taught writing process in a video format. In addition the design used a computerized assessment to analyze the writing sample. This format would allow the teacher to …
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"Writing ""Taiwanese"": The Péh-oē-jī romanization and identity construction in Taiwan, 1860s-1990s"
… POJ hereafter) was transformed from a “foreign” writing system as a religious tool for Bible study into an identity arker for various groups of “Taiwanese” (Taiwan ren) in Taiwan from 1865 through the 1990s. Under three political regimes― the Qing Empire, Japanese colonial rule, and the post-war …
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The effects of affective variables and kanji growth on L1 Chinese JSL learners' kanji learning
… the Chinese characters utilized in the Japanese writing system) is unique for learners of Japanese who speak Chinese as their first language (L1) due to their ability to transfer their knowledge of L1 hanzi (i.e., the Chinese characters utilized in the Chinese writing system). The present study …
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A Proposal for an American English/persian Transcription Scheme as A Bibliographic Control Tool
… and bibliographers) of bibliographic control systems. The motivation for this study grew from the realization that the operators would have better control over bibliographic accuracy if a transcription scheme were to be devised so that foreign names would be more consistently rendered in …
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"A Painter's Brush That Also Makes Poems": Contemporary Painting After Northern Song Calligraphy
… Among them are the relation of the Chinese writing system to the natural world; the belief that calligraphy displays the writer’s character; the role of calligraphy in sustaining social relationships; calligraphy’s particular temporality; its political role during the Northern Song; the …
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Speling "Successful" Sucesfuly: Statistical Learning in Spelling
… college students from an English-based education system but with diverse language backgrounds: Mandarin: N=54), Malay: N=44), or Tamil: N=42). In the choice task, participants heard a nonword and chose between two spelling options, e.g. dremmib/dremib. In the free task, they wrote down its best …
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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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A sound of Korea: Hunminjeongeum by Byunghee Oh
… Inspired by the historical origins of the Korean writing system, Hangeul (한글), the work blends traditional Korean musical idioms with modern choral textures. Many ideas and materials explored will be familiar to Korean readers; however, the primary effort of this work is to synthesize and …
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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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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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