Lynne Cahill

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lynne Cahill plays a role.

Titles

On the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems

Edited by David F. Mora-Marín and Lynne Cahill

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 26:1 (2023) v, 154 pp.

Orthographic Databases and Lexicons

Edited by Lynne Cahill and Terry Joyce

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 20:1 (2017) v, 127 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy

Articles

Cahill, Lynne 2023 The standardisation of spelling in Middle English: The case of saidOn the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems, Mora-Marín, David F. and Lynne Cahill (eds.), pp. 131–153 | Article
The standardisation of English spelling is widely assumed to have happened, or at least started, during the fifteenth century, with a variety of theories about the location and spread of the process. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of a single spelling feature: the vowel in the word… read more
Mora Marín, David and Lynne Cahill 2023 On the systematic nature of writing systemsOn the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems, Mora-Marín, David F. and Lynne Cahill (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
The CELEX lexical database (Baayen, Piepenbrock & van Rijn 1995) was developed in the 1990s, providing a database of the syntactic, morphological, phonological and orthographic forms of between 50,000 and 125,000 words of Dutch, English and German. This database was used as the basis for the… read more
Cahill, Lynne and Terry Joyce 2017 Orthographic databases and lexicons: Introduction to the Special IssueOrthographic Databases and Lexicons, Cahill, Lynne and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Introduction
Cahill, Lynne, Carole Tiberius and Jon Herring 2013 PolyOrth: Orthography, phonology and morphology in inheritance lexiconsWritten Language & Literacy 16:2, pp. 146–185 | Article
The relationship between orthography, phonology and morphology varies with different languages and writing systems. These relationships are by no means random. They follow rules, albeit with exceptions, even for relatively irregular languages like English. In this paper, we present the PolyOrth… read more