LING 270 Language, Technology and Society Unit 5

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LING 270Language, Technology and SocietyUnit 5

• Richard Sproat
• URL http//catarina.ai.uiuc.edu/L270/

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English Spelling Reform Proposals

• Wikipedia page http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell
  ing_reform
• Some proposals
• Saaspel A completed spelling reform with audio
  pronunciation guide and multi-lingual online
  converter.
• SoundSpel, Saundspel
• Cut Spelling
• Freespeling
• Stage 1
• New Spelling 90
• Nuspelynh
• NuEnglish
• SR1

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The 1995 Dutch spelling reform the case of the
linking morpheme
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DeFrancis Character Simplification
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A side-note on Turkey
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Examples of simplification
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Phonetic motivations
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1954
http//www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/pla85.jpg
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1954
http//www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/pla70.jpg
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1957
http//www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/pla53.jpg
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1958
http//www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/pla71.jpg
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1954 vs 1958
1954
1958
A tribute to the Chinese Peoples Liberation
Army which defends the nation
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1960
http//www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/pla75.jpg
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1962
http//www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/pla79.jpg
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1969
http//www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/pla51.jpg
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Did simplification achieve greater literacy?