Language Development: The lifespan perspective
Edited by Annette Gerstenberg and Anja Voeste
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 37] 2015. vii, 233 pp.
Anja Voeste
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anja Voeste plays a role.
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Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
2015 Investigating the lifespan perspective Language Development: The lifespan perspective, Gerstenberg, Annette and Anja Voeste (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2015 Proficiency and efficiency: Why German spelling changed in Early Modern times The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spelling, Villa, Laura and Rik Vosters (eds.), pp. 248–259 | Article
In Late Medieval and Early Modern times, the modernization of printing and the increasing proficiency of related crafts had an impact on spelling. The challenges of microtypography, especially of text alignment, led to a bundle of new spelling variants that annoyed early grammatography.… read more
2015 Tired mind or tired hand? Linguistic changes in the private letters of a Baltic German nobleman Language Development: The lifespan perspective, Gerstenberg, Annette and Anja Voeste (eds.), pp. 167–188 | Article
During the years 1856–1902 the Baltic German nobleman Eduard von Oettingen wrote regularly to his wife Julie. Comparing three different time phases (letters written at the age of 27–30, 45–49 and 66–69), I will discuss potential age-dependent changes in syntactic complexity, lexical frequency as… read more
2007 Traveling through the lexicon: “Self-organized” spelling changes Constraints on Spelling Changes, Nottbusch, Guido and Eliane Segers (eds.), pp. 89–102 | Article
Between the 15th and 17th centuries, German spelling underwent essential changes. Although most writers and typesetters were well acquainted with the high degree of formalization of Latin grammar and orthography, the changes were not brought about by principles planned ex ante or by application of… read more