Deborah H Roberts
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1104039 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Deborah H Roberts |
| PRENOMES | Deborah H |
| SOBRENOME | Roberts |
| ASSINATURA | ROBERTS D H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Haverford College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5226-4540 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Online peer-group mentoring
This article describes an online peer-group mentoring program to support career-long professional development, professional identity development, and stronger experiential peer-to-peer learning. It was developed in response to ongoing interest among members of the Australian Evaluation Society (AES), a professional association that aims to improve the theory, practice, and use of evaluation. It is intended to complement the technical training tha…
The contribution of full tone marking to oral reading fluency and comprehension in Yoruba and Ife
Orthographic depth is a key concept in literacy acquisition and can be measured separately for completeness, simplicity and consistency. The first of these is pertinent to discussions about whether tone should be marked in African orthographies, because a zero tone representation is relatively incomplete and deep whereas a full tone orthography is relatively complete and shallow. We undertook a series of literacy experiments in ten Niger-Congo la…
Polarity, Low Tone Spread, and Underspecification in the Kabiye Verb Phrase
This autosegmental analysis of Kabiye verbal derivations and inflections demonstrates that tone patterns on adjectives and locative nominalizations are not the underlying forms of verb roots, as claimed by previous researchers, because they are in complementary distribution. Rather, verb roots are analyzed as being underlyingly /H, L/, and two additional morphological elements – verbal extensions and TAM prefixes – both reveal a ternary /H, -L, -…
Childhood and the Classics
This book explores the childhood reception of classical antiquity in Britain and the United States over a century-long period beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, with a focus on two genres of children’s literature– the myth collection and the historical novel—and on adults’ literary responses to their own childhood encounters with antiquity. The book recognizes the fundamental role in writing for children of adults’ ideas about what children…
The Ancient Prehistory of Modern Adults
This chapter considers some of the ways in which the association between childhood and antiquity has been conceptualized and elaborated in works for adults, particularly in the early decades of the twentieth century. Memories of formative encounters by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann and the poet and novelist H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) set the stage for a discussion of Freudian psychoanalysis, the scholarly theories of Jane Harrison, and the wo…
Neither Deep nor Shallow
The experiment reported here tests the Lexical Orthography Hypothesis, that is, the notion that the output of the lexical phonology is the most promising phonological depth for an exhaustive representation of tone by means of diacritics in the orthography of a tone language. We conducted a controlled classroom experiment with 97 secondary school pupils learning written Kabiye, a Gur language of northern Togo. After testing their baseline skills i…
Infusing Theory into the Undergraduate Classics Curriculum
This article describes three courses at Haverford College in which theory is the object of attention: Translation and Transformation: Theory and Practice; History of Literary Theory: Plato to Shelley; and Senior Seminar. In the last of these, students survey a range of theoretical approaches in relation to classical literature and are thus encouraged to develop senior theses that are more sophisticated in their awareness and use of method. The th…
Introduction to special issue on ‘Units of Language – Units of Writing’
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Writing grammar rather than tone
Some orthographies represent tone phonemically by means of diacritics; others favor zero marking. Neither solution is entirely satisfactory. The former leads to graphic overload; the latter to a profusion of homographs; both may reduce fluency. But there is a 'third way': to highlight the grammar rather than the tone system itself. To test this approach, we developed two experimental strategies for Kabiye: a grammar orthography and a tone orthogr…
A tone orthography typology
Discussions about tone orthography have long been hampered by imprecise terminology. This article aims to bring clarity by means of an explicit typology composed of six parameters. Each parameter is defined by a choice: domain, target, symbol, position, density, and depth. The orthographer assesses each typological aspect individually, while always bearing in mind that the six parameters together generate a complex matrix of responses. The result…
Visual Crowding and the tone orthography of African languages
The effect of Crowding has long been recognised by cognitive psychologists engaged in examining the reading process. Yet it is not generally taken into account by most field linguists involved in the development of tone orthographies for emerging African languages. True, there is a general recognition that diacritic overload is unhelpful, but this has never been articulated with the help of the more precise terminology already on offer from the f…
The two Kabiye orthographies
Two orthographies have been developed for Kabiye, a Gur language spoken mainly in Togo. The first aim of this paper is to provide an accurate historical summary concerning their development, teasing out some of the sociolinguistic issues which led to their separate evolution. Following this, I present the results of a comparative analysis, based on a text sample. I demonstrate five major types of difference: level of representation (shallow or de…
Helen Bacon (1919–2007)
Helen Bacon1 (1919–2007) Nancy Felson, Deborah Roberts, and Laura Slatkin The death of Helen Bacon in November of 2007, in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, leaves an irreparable void in the lives not only of her family members but of generations of her friends, relatives, students, and colleagues—to Helen, who was no respecter of hierarchies, all these were overlapping categories. Although her health had diminished her activities in recent years, she…
Translating Antiquity
This chapter examines intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism in translations. It considers some of the particular problems or issues that arise in archaizing translation of classical texts and then asks whether a return to some form of archaizing as a feature of Venuti’s foreignizing seems likely to emerge. The chapter concludes by returning to anachronistic quotation, paradoxically employed in the service of a mode of archaism.
From Modernization to Multiple Modernities
Elias Canetti's Counter-Image of Society
Crowds and Power or the Natural History of Modernity
Sources of Dramatic Theory 1
The paradox of form
"Fate" in Oedipus Tyrannus
Parting Words
This passage, which appears without variation at the end of four of Euripides' tragedies and with slight variation in a fifth,1 is perhaps the most notorious of the brief sequences of lines, usually anapaestic and usually assigned to the chorus, with which nearly all the extant plays of Sophocles and Euripides conclude.2 Unlike the more varied final speeches of extant Aeschylean tragedy, which are closely integrated with the play's concluding act…
The Postmodernity of Art
Apollo and His Oracle in the Oresteia
Orestes as Fulfillment, Teraskopos, and Teras in the Oresteia
Marxism, Modernism, Postmodernism
Parting Words
This passage, which appears without variation at the end of four of Euripides' tragedies and with slight variation in a fifth,1 is perhaps the most notorious of the brief sequences of lines, usually anapaestic and usually assigned to the chorus, with which nearly all the extant plays of Sophocles and Euripides conclude.2 Unlike the more varied final speeches of extant Aeschylean tragedy, which are closely integrated with the play's concluding act…
A tone orthography typology
Discussions about tone orthography have long been hampered by imprecise terminology. This article aims to bring clarity by means of an explicit typology composed of six parameters. Each parameter is defined by a choice: domain, target, symbol, position, density, and depth. The orthographer assesses each typological aspect individually, while always bearing in mind that the six parameters together generate a complex matrix of responses. The result…
Writing grammar rather than tone
Some orthographies represent tone phonemically by means of diacritics; others favor zero marking. Neither solution is entirely satisfactory. The former leads to graphic overload; the latter to a profusion of homographs; both may reduce fluency. But there is a 'third way': to highlight the grammar rather than the tone system itself. To test this approach, we developed two experimental strategies for Kabiye: a grammar orthography and a tone orthogr…
Orestes as Fulfillment, Teraskopos, and Teras in the Oresteia
Neither Deep nor Shallow
The experiment reported here tests the Lexical Orthography Hypothesis, that is, the notion that the output of the lexical phonology is the most promising phonological depth for an exhaustive representation of tone by means of diacritics in the orthography of a tone language. We conducted a controlled classroom experiment with 97 secondary school pupils learning written Kabiye, a Gur language of northern Togo. After testing their baseline skills i…
The Pronunciation of Ancient Greek
Apollo and his Oracle in the Oresteia
Blood or Fate
The line in question occurs towards the end of Orestes' final exchange with Clytemnestra, after her attempts at self-defence have all met with rebuttal
Orestes as Fulfillment, Teraskopos, and Teras in the Oresteia
Marxism, Modernism, Postmodernism
Apollo and His Oracle in the Oresteia
Parting Words
This passage, which appears without variation at the end of four of Euripides' tragedies and with slight variation in a fifth,1 is perhaps the most notorious of the brief sequences of lines, usually anapaestic and usually assigned to the chorus, with which nearly all the extant plays of Sophocles and Euripides conclude.2 Unlike the more varied final speeches of extant Aeschylean tragedy, which are closely integrated with the play's concluding act…
The Postmodernity of Art
"Fate" in Oedipus Tyrannus
Sources of Dramatic Theory 1
The paradox of form
Crowds and Power or the Natural History of Modernity
Elias Canetti's Counter-Image of Society
From Modernization to Multiple Modernities
Translating Antiquity
This chapter examines intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism in translations. It considers some of the particular problems or issues that arise in archaizing translation of classical texts and then asks whether a return to some form of archaizing as a feature of Venuti’s foreignizing seems likely to emerge. The chapter concludes by returning to anachronistic quotation, paradoxically employed in the service of a mode of archaism.
The two Kabiye orthographies
Two orthographies have been developed for Kabiye, a Gur language spoken mainly in Togo. The first aim of this paper is to provide an accurate historical summary concerning their development, teasing out some of the sociolinguistic issues which led to their separate evolution. Following this, I present the results of a comparative analysis, based on a text sample. I demonstrate five major types of difference: level of representation (shallow or de…
Helen Bacon (1919–2007)
Helen Bacon1 (1919–2007) Nancy Felson, Deborah Roberts, and Laura Slatkin The death of Helen Bacon in November of 2007, in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, leaves an irreparable void in the lives not only of her family members but of generations of her friends, relatives, students, and colleagues—to Helen, who was no respecter of hierarchies, all these were overlapping categories. Although her health had diminished her activities in recent years, she…
Visual Crowding and the tone orthography of African languages
The effect of Crowding has long been recognised by cognitive psychologists engaged in examining the reading process. Yet it is not generally taken into account by most field linguists involved in the development of tone orthographies for emerging African languages. True, there is a general recognition that diacritic overload is unhelpful, but this has never been articulated with the help of the more precise terminology already on offer from the f…
A tone orthography typology
Discussions about tone orthography have long been hampered by imprecise terminology. This article aims to bring clarity by means of an explicit typology composed of six parameters. Each parameter is defined by a choice: domain, target, symbol, position, density, and depth. The orthographer assesses each typological aspect individually, while always bearing in mind that the six parameters together generate a complex matrix of responses. The result…
Introduction to special issue on ‘Units of Language – Units of Writing’
Preview this article: Introduction to special issue on ‘Units of Language – Units of Writing’: A key relationship for writing systems research, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/wll.15.2.01rob-1.gif
Writing grammar rather than tone
Some orthographies represent tone phonemically by means of diacritics; others favor zero marking. Neither solution is entirely satisfactory. The former leads to graphic overload; the latter to a profusion of homographs; both may reduce fluency. But there is a 'third way': to highlight the grammar rather than the tone system itself. To test this approach, we developed two experimental strategies for Kabiye: a grammar orthography and a tone orthogr…
Infusing Theory into the Undergraduate Classics Curriculum
This article describes three courses at Haverford College in which theory is the object of attention: Translation and Transformation: Theory and Practice; History of Literary Theory: Plato to Shelley; and Senior Seminar. In the last of these, students survey a range of theoretical approaches in relation to classical literature and are thus encouraged to develop senior theses that are more sophisticated in their awareness and use of method. The th…
Neither Deep nor Shallow
The experiment reported here tests the Lexical Orthography Hypothesis, that is, the notion that the output of the lexical phonology is the most promising phonological depth for an exhaustive representation of tone by means of diacritics in the orthography of a tone language. We conducted a controlled classroom experiment with 97 secondary school pupils learning written Kabiye, a Gur language of northern Togo. After testing their baseline skills i…
Childhood and the Classics
This book explores the childhood reception of classical antiquity in Britain and the United States over a century-long period beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, with a focus on two genres of children’s literature– the myth collection and the historical novel—and on adults’ literary responses to their own childhood encounters with antiquity. The book recognizes the fundamental role in writing for children of adults’ ideas about what children…
The Ancient Prehistory of Modern Adults
This chapter considers some of the ways in which the association between childhood and antiquity has been conceptualized and elaborated in works for adults, particularly in the early decades of the twentieth century. Memories of formative encounters by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann and the poet and novelist H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) set the stage for a discussion of Freudian psychoanalysis, the scholarly theories of Jane Harrison, and the wo…
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