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Spellings and linguistic awareness in the Middle Assyrian Laws

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Worthington, Martin  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7948-0371

Abstract

One of the best sources of evidence for Akkadian linguistic awareness is spelling. For, far from being mere phonetic transcriptions of spoken language, spellings can reflect all sorts of mental processes involving language. The intricacies of disentangling orthography from pronunciation are well illustrated by the representation of the vowels conventionally known today as /i/ and /e/.

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Akkadian, Middle Assyrian, Orthography, Linguistic awareness

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Encoding metalinguistic awareness: ancient Mesopotamia and beyond

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Die Sprache des Bewusstseins und das Bewusstsein von Sprache im Alten Orient

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PeWe-Verlag