Malay, the national language of Malaysia, is written in two distinct scripts: the Arabic script and the Romanised script. The Arabic script of written Malay is relatively more cognitively complex (Salehuddin, 2012); making it today the less preferred script of written Malay in comparison to Romanised script. Salehuddin (2013) proposed the introduction of the Arabic vowel diacritics into the Arabic script of written Malay to reduce its cognitive complexity. Hence, this paper presents results of an experiment using DMDX as a tool to investigate the accuracy of reading Malay words written in Arabic script with and without diacritics.
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Reducing the cognitive complexity in reading the Arabic script of written Malay via diacritics
Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol.114, pp.40-44
2014
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- Title
- Reducing the cognitive complexity in reading the Arabic script of written Malay via diacritics
- Creators
- Khazriyati Salehuddin (Author) - Universiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaHeather Winskel (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol.114, pp.40-44
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Identifiers
- 2922; 991012820683402368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health; School of Health and Human Sciences; Human Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article