A featural analysis of the Modern Roman Alphabet
Beatrice Primus
The present article shows that the letters of Modern Roman Alphabet have an internal structure is highly systematic in both inner-graphematic and functional-phonological terms. framework analysis Optimality Theory. This approach congenial for data at issue as many apparently unmotivated exceptions are optimal choices among competing candidates evaluated by violable ranked constraints. results investigation corroborate a branching correspondence model which general modality-independent constraints such dependency, compositionality, markedness iconism shown to independent modality-specific instantiations speech writing with bidirectional correspondences serving functional links across modalities.
Written Language and Literacy