LIN 2304 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ostracon, Gezer Calendar, Semitic Languages
5 May 2017
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Abugida: phonographic, vowels written as diacritics on cons. Arranged by how much morphographic info is in the ws. Bound grapheme: only used in combo. with other graphemes ex. Mora: phonological unit larger than segment, smaller than syll. Creative spelling: non-standard spelling, reforms in lang. , slang. Diacritic: bound grapheme which modifies value of the basic symbol (free graph. ) Digraph: seq. of 2 graphemes rep. a linguistic unit usually repd. by 1 grapheme. Glottographic: true writing system graphic signs corresponding to morphemic, syllabic, and/or phonemic units which can be used to encode utterances through regular rules of sign combination. " Homography: 2 different units written the same way. ex. well. Homophony: 2 different units sound the same. ex. Lingua franca: lang. adopted as common by speakers of different native langs. ex. Morphophonemic: linguistic units between phonological and morphological levels of lang. Over/underdifferentiated: some writing systems relation to language have orthographic distinctions that do not correspond to any phonological contrasts.
