Typology of writing systems

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Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013
Schriftenreihe:Benjamins current topics v. 51
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  • This paper aims at determining the relationship between writing in chats and features from different writing systems. Although net users do not realise it, they recreate features mainly from morphographic systems and consonantal scripts and, consequently, they seem to be searching for a more economical way of conveying meaning through writing. When carrying out a corpus-based study, involving 90 minutes of real-time conversations in a Portuguese chat programme, we observed tendencies concerning spelling changes: the syllable onset is usually preserved, which resembles consonantal scripts; the