Chapter 12: Reading and Writing

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Chapter 12 Reading and Writing
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Ingrish
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Engrish
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Important term

• Petroglyphs stone carving

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Important term

• Pictograms symbols representing object or
  concept

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Important term

• Ideogram similar to pictogram though pictogram
  is more literal

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Important term

• Cuneifrom wedge shaped (Summerians in
  Mesopotamia (Iraq) 4000 BC

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Important term

• Logographic word writing

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Important term

• Hieroglyphics - (sacred carvings)
• Rosetta stone hieroglyphics, Demotic, classical
  Greek

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Important Term

• Syllabic writing symbols representing syllable
  sounds
• Japanese also uses Kanji (Chinese characters)
• Not efficient for English
• English has too many inflections

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Important terms

• Alphabetic writing
• Phoneme
• Phonemic awareness

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Korean and Chinese and Twi

• Korean uses place of articulation in their
  alphabetic system
• Chinese uses characters
• Maintained due to heritage
• Twi spoken in Ghana, uses some IPA symbols

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Literacy

• Drawback of literacy?
• Biggest obstacles to literacy in our society?
• Schools affect on literacy?

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Spelling

• Printing press codified spelling
• Sound changes page 524-525