Re: Quasi-logographic

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>> - there are only phonological and morphological
>> elements and a syllabic/phonemic continuum.
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> I cannot see any "morphological elements" in English spelling (apart
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> word spacing and capital letters -- but these elements are certainly
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> unique to English).

E.g. in the words < extreme > and < extremism > the second < e > has a
different pronunciation (according to my dictionary), but in the
written form the morpheme < extrem- > is the same. Maybe this is a
"morphological element" in English spelling (if extrem- is a morpheme).

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