Donwa-Ifode 1990

Donwa-Ifode 1990

Reference
	Donwa-Ifode, Shirley O. 1990. "Transitional phonologies and their implications for orthographies: The case of Ora." The Journal of West African Languages. Interest level: specialist.

Summary

Reviews the sound system, nasals, and nasalization as they affect the representation of nasal vowels. In handling vowel sequences, elicits evidence from related languages to show they result from the loss of intervening consonants. The number of vowels ranges from two to five across morpheme boundaries. With evidence from this and other languages, examines the implications of such a transitional phonology for orthographic conventions.

Context for this page:

Bibliography module: Donwa-Ifode 1990
In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): D
In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
In document collection: Reference materials
In bookshelf: Literacy

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