Re: tone test

Caoimhin P. ODonnaile (caoimhin@smo.ac.uk)
Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:05:39 BST


> george mbeh and i have a paper describing the
> results of our first test of the tone problem.
> the tone problem is this: do native speakers of
> previously nonwritten tone languages need to see
> tones marked when they begin to use alphabetic
> writing in their languages?

Evn f y lft out mst f th ltrs n nglsh, ntv spkrs wd b bl t rd t.
Tht dsnt mn tht t wd b a gd thng t do.

Kevin