Brett Kessler

List of John Benjamins publications for which Brett Kessler plays a role.

Articles

Treiman, Rebecca and Brett Kessler 2013 Similarities among the shapes of writing and their effects on learningTypology of Writing Systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 41–60 | Article
Writing systems are usually studied in terms of the level of language that they represent, with little attention to the shapes that are used to do so. Those shapes are not random or accidental, however. They tend to be similar to one another within a script. Many of the Latin letters have a roughly… read more
Treiman, Rebecca and Brett Kessler 2011 Similarities among the shapes of writing and their effects on learningTypology of writing systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 39–57 | Article
Writing systems are usually studied in terms of the level of language that they represent, with little attention to the shapes that are used to do so. Those shapes are not random or accidental, however. They tend to be similar to one another within a script. Many of the Latin letters have a… read more