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.
Franziska Buchmann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Franziska Buchmann plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy
Articles
2014 Foreword: The architecture of writing systems The architecture of writing systems, Berg, Kristian, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Article
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
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