| Title | |
| Describe an ideal writing system. How do the writing systems of Latin and Greek compare to it? | |
| Reading | |
| W.S. Allen | Vox Graeca (3rd ed. 1987) |
| Vox Latina (2nd ed. 1978) | |
| P. Matthews | A Short History of Structural Linguistics (2001) pp. 32-48 |
| J. Lyons | Language and Linguistics (1981) Chap. 3 pp. 84-98 |
| Clark and Yallop | An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (2nd ed. 1995) |
| In preparing this essay you are expected to come to an understanding of the terminology of phonetics (how sounds are produced etc.) and phonology (phoneme, allophone etc.). You are not expected to parrot Vox Graeca and Latina or to provide a laborious description of each phoneme. A good starting point is to consider the difficulties and advantages of different writing systems you know. | |
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