What is underrepresentation? |
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Underrepresentation is using one symbol to represent more than one phoneme, or using zero representation of a phoneme (Dawson, J. 1986). | |||
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Mother tongue speakers (of the language being developed) who learned to read a language of wider communication may want to write their own language. They would probably use the same set of symbols as the language in which they learned to read. In many cases, this could lead to underrepresentation in the vowel, consonant, and tone system. |
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Here is an example of underrepresentation in Ebrie (Kwa, Cote d'Ivoire): | |||||||||||
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