S. Borgwaldt

List of John Benjamins publications for which S. Borgwaldt plays a role.

Titles

Typology of Writing Systems

Edited by S. Borgwaldt and Terry Joyce

[Benjamins Current Topics, 51] 2013. viii, 163 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Writing and literacy

Typology of writing systems

Edited by S. Borgwaldt and Terry Joyce

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 14:1 (2011) v, 159 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Joyce, Terry and S. Borgwaldt 2013 Typology of writing systems: IntroductionTypology of Writing Systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
Previous research has shown that novel objects that are merged from two identifiable parts predominantly elicit noun – noun compounds in Germanic languages. However, it is unclear whether Hungarian allows shape/appearance modifiers in noun – noun compounds. Using a novel object naming task we… read more
Joyce, Terry and S. Borgwaldt 2011 Typology of writing systems: Special issue introductionTypology of writing systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article
Borgwaldt, S. 2010 Review of Sprenger-Charolles, Colé & Serniclaes (2007): Reading acquisition and developmental dyslexiaDevelopmental aspects of written language, Vernon Carter, Sofía A. and Mónica Alvarado (eds.), pp. 278–281 | Review
Bolger, Patrick, S. Borgwaldt and Emőke Jakab 2009 Letter and grapheme perception in English and DutchWritten Language & Literacy 12:1, pp. 116–139 | Article
In the study of reading, there is a debate about whether letters or graphemes are the primary units of perception. A promising data basis for empirically contributing to this debate can be gained from measuring the perception of single vowel letters compared to vowel digraphs. We used letter… read more
Borgwaldt, S., Frauke M. Hellwig and Annette M.B. de Groot 2005 Word-initial entropy in five languages: Letter to sound, and sound to letterFrom Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems, Neef, Martin and Beatrice Primus † (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article
Alphabetic orthographies show more or less ambiguous relations between spelling and sound patterns. In transparent orthographies, like Italian, the pronunciation can be predicted from the spelling and vice versa. Opaque orthographies, like English, often display unpredictable spelling–sound… read more