How to Reduce an Unwritten Language to Writing

II. Consonants

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2407124
AutoresOswald Werner (Northwestern University, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume12
Fascículo3
Páginas239-250
Data de publicação2000-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCAM (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1087-8513 • E-ISSN: 1552-3969
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1525822x0001200305
OpenAlexW2029670672
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas6

This is the second article on reducing field languages to the written word. Here the author deals with the consonants, setting up a basic set of eighteen consonants and two semivowels and expanding them with Series-Generating Components (SGCs) to forty-eight. There are, of course, many more consonantal varieties in the languages of the world, but this set should be sufficient to get a field ethnographer started. The ethnographer who encounters exotic sounds not listed in this article should consult an expert. Much can be learned by reading about the languages of the area where the fieldwork is to take place. The appendix contains an empty form to be duplicated for fieldwork with unwritten languages

Ethnography · Field (mathematics) · Linguistics · Programming language · Reading (process) · Set (abstract data type) · Word (group theory) · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation