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  1. Jul 1, 2015 · All writing represents the words of a language according to a set of rules. However, important properties of a language often go unrepresented in writing. Change and variation in the spoken...

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  2. Jan 1, 2022 · A treatment of the structure of writing systems—their relation to speech and language, their material features, linguistic functions, and norms, as well as the different types in which they...

  3. The World’s Writing Systems, edited by Peter McDaniel and William Bright. J. Marshall Unger. 1997, Language in Society, vol. 26 no. 3 pp 436-39. Co-authored with John DeFrancis. See full PDF.

  4. Jun 22, 2022 · A treatment of the structure of writing systems—their relation to speech and language, their material features, linguistic functions, and norms, as well as the different types in which they...

  5. The goal of Meaning-Text theory (MTT) is to write systems of explicit rules that express the correspondence between meaning and text (or sound) in various languages.

  6. The book's subtitle, "A Linguistic Approach", reflects the author's method of describing technical aspects of the language in order to properly understand how its writing system works. There is no other way to do this.

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  8. Written by a leading expert, this new textbook provides an accessible introduction to the major writing systems of the world, from cuneiform to English spelling. Florian Coulmas presents detailed descriptions of the world’s writing systems and ex-plains their structural complexities as well as the intricate relationship between written and ...