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Do đó, các chữ viết tắt trực tiếp, người đại đã gửi toàn bộ từ. Các loại khác của từ viết tắt có vẻ như để tranh luận hơn plausibly cho một hành vi âm tiết của các chữ cái. Hãy xem xét các từ viết tắt CIA, NIH, HIV, FBI, PTA, DOE, MD, BS, MA, Ed.D., và Tiến sĩ Đây là những phát âm với tên thư âm tiết | 70 CHAPTER 6 nonexistent pronunciations wl ml ka and aya make perfectly clear. Other state abbreviations make this point more clearly as a sounding out of the abbreviation produces a syllable that is found nowhere at all in the full pronunciation. This is the case for MO Missouri ME Maine GA Georgia and LA Louisiana . The abbreviations therefore directly represent the whole word. Other types of abbreviations seem to argue more plausibly for a syllabic behavior of letters. Consider the acronyms CIA NIH HIV FBI PTA DOE M.D. B.S. M.A. Ed.D. and Ph.D. These are pronounced with syllabic letter names and so appear to represent a syllabary functioning of letters. But the syllabary behavior is again illusory. The central function of the letters remains logographic because the pronounced syllables are actually names that is the names of the letters another lexicosyntactic feature. So when reading these abbreviations aloud it is the letter name that is first identified and the syllabic pronunciation follows as a consequence. Evidence that this is the empirically correct analysis comes from abbreviations that contain letters whose names are not a single syllable. There being only one of these in English namely w we can see from examples such as www.com WWF and WHO that it is that letter name itself that is read aloud. Consider abbreviations such as Sgt. Dr. cpt. Cpl. and Mr. These and numerous others of this sort represent whole words via the consonants that correspond to sounds in their ordinary pronunciations and that are present in their conventional spellings. They can be thought of as a type of consonantal spelling neither purely alphabetic nor purely logographic. Consonantal spellings are found in Semitic languages Sampson 1985 where symbols for the vowel sounds are absent words are conventionally written right to left as seen in Fig. 6.3. Whereas in Arabic and Hebrew the vowels that eventually show up in pronunciation are determined by morphological and syntactic .
