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This document discusses the relationship between linguistics and written language. It notes that linguistics claims to be based on speech, but that the data and analysis is influenced by writing systems. Specifically, it notes that (1) the concepts of "sentence", "word", and "phoneme" may be influenced by writing with spaces and letters; and (2) thinking patterns are shaped by literacy in ways that non-literate people reason differently. It concludes that linguists should explicitly acknowledge how their pe
- Author
- donnanouse
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- EN