All Stories

  1. Heterophonic homography in African and Semitic languages

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, December 2025, John Benjamins

    Prof. Elinor Edward Saiegh-Haddad, Dr David A. Roberts

  2. The contribution of full tone marking to oral reading fluency and comprehension in Yoruba and Ife

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, December 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr David A. Roberts

  3. Tone Orthography and Literacy

    Article • June 2021, John Benjamins

    Dr David A. Roberts

  4. Snider, Keith: Tone analysis for field linguists

    Article • Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr David A. Roberts

  5. Dialogue on dialect standardization

    Article • Writing Systems Research, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr David A. Roberts

  6. How tones are assigned to Kabiye noun class suffixes

    Article • Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr David A. Roberts

  7. Neither Deep nor Shallow: A Classroom Experiment Testing the Orthographic Depth of Tone Marking in Kabiye (Togo)

    Article • Language and Speech, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr David A. Roberts

  8. Review of Mumin & Versteegh (2014): The Arabic script in Africa: Studies in the use of a writing system

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, September 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr David A. Roberts

  9. Units of Language – Units of Writing

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, August 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Terry Joyce, Dr David A. Roberts

  10. Introduction to special issue on ‘Units of Language – Units of Writing’

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, August 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Terry Joyce, Dr David A. Roberts

  11. Writing grammar rather than tone

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, August 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr David A. Roberts

  12. A tone orthography typology

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, February 2011, John Benjamins

    Dr David A. Roberts

  13. Visual Crowding and the tone orthography of African languages

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, August 2009, John Benjamins

    Dr David A. Roberts

  14. The two Kabiye orthographies

    Article • Written Language & Literacy, October 2008, John Benjamins

    Dr David A. Roberts