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Direct linkDavid Roberts; Ginger Boyd; Johannes Merz; Valentin Vydrin – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Whether tone should be represented in writing, and if so how much, is one of the most formidable challenges facing those developing orthographies for tone languages. Various researchers have attempted to quantify the level of written ambiguity in a language if tone is not marked, but these contributions are not easily comparable because they use…
Descriptors: Written Language, Ambiguity (Semantics), Tone Languages, Translation
