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|b This study seeks to establish a visual phonology that studies the signs \ Language,writing systems, diacritics signs and punctuation. It develops and broadens what the linguist Linda Uyechi (1996) called visual phonology, the science which studies sign languages. \ The validity of visual phonology entails an analysis of its major tributaries as illustrated by the different linguistic studies of oral and writing, contrastive linguistics as well as the different visual systems, cognitive sciences and educational linguistics. \ This work tries also to employ a number of concepts, such as visual \ language, visual linguistics, which developed into two branches, namely visual lexicon, and syntactic structures as well as visual phonetics, to shape a visual phonology through a measurement of the correlations of its units with that of the audio-vocal phonological units as well as the interaction between the two subsystems. \ It also attempts to understand the role of educational linguistics in emphasizing the importance of the integration of the written component in linguistics via phonology. \ With such a new perspective, we can address the impact of writing on the oral spoken language, which will reduce the phonetic tendency to study the phonological issues. It will also help to learn both the visual and the written through interaction, polarity and differentiation. This interest in visual phonology will undoubtedly help to overcome some of the educational issues.
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