Nanna Fuhrhop

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Nanna Fuhrhop plays a role.

Journal

Written Language & Literacy (WL&L)

General Editor: Dorit Ravid

ISSN 1387-6732 | E-ISSN 1570-6001

Title

The architecture of writing systems

Edited by Kristian Berg, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 17:2 (2014) viii, 142 pp.

Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy

Articles (4) | Order by:

Hettwer, Caroline and Nanna Fuhrhop 2021 Chapter 6. Stem constancy under the microscope: A systematic language comparison of types and limitations of stem spelling All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, Moradi, Sedigheh, Marcia Haag, Janie Rees-Miller and Andrija Petrovic (eds.), pp. 99–116 | Chapter

Writing systems show variation in stem spellings, for example with double consonant letters. In German, the double consonant is always preserved (e.g., rennen – rennt, “to run – runs”), while in Dutch it is not (rennen – rent). In English <nn> is normally not preserved (running – run), though in… read more

Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop 2014 Foreword: The architecture of writing systems The architecture of writing systems, Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Article

Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann, Katharina Dybiec and Nanna Fuhrhop 2014 Morphological spellings in English The architecture of writing systems, Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop (eds.), pp. 282–307 | Article

Morphologically motivated spellings in English are usually thought to be restricted to cases like 〈electric – electrician – electricity〉, where the stem final letter 〈c〉 is kept constant in spelling although the corresponding phoneme varies in spoken language. However, there are many more – and… read more

Fuhrhop, Nanna, Franziska Buchmann and Kristian Berg 2011 The length hierarchy and the graphematic syllable: Evidence from German and English Written Language & Literacy 14:2, pp. 275–292 | Article

Minuscules of the Roman alphabet can be subcategorized into graphemes with length (for example 〈b〉) and graphemes without length (for example 〈o〉). While plosives, which correspond to graphemes with length, occur at the syllable edge, vowels, corresponding to graphemes without length, constitute… read more