Typology of writing systems

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 14:1 (2011)

Editors

S. Borgwaldt | TU Braunschweig, Germany

Terry Joyce | Tama University, Japan

[Written Language & Literacy, 14:1] 2011. v, 159 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.14.1

Table of Contents

Typology of writing systems: Special issue introduction Terry Joyce and S. Borgwaldt	1–11
Comparative graphematics Rüdiger Weingarten	12–38
Similarities among the shapes of writing and their effects on learning Rebecca Treiman and Brett Kessler	39–57
The significance of the morphographic principle for the classification of writing systems Terry Joyce	58–81
A tone orthography typology David Roberts	82–108
Measuring graphematic transparency: German and Italian compared Martin Neef and Miriam Balestra	109–142
Writing in Portuguese chats :): A new wrtng systm? Cláudia Silva	143–156
Book review
Review of Baines, Bennet & Houston (2008): The disappearance of writing systems: perspectives on literacy and communication Reviewed by Martin Neef	157–159

Subjects

Linguistics

Writing and literacy

Discourse studies

Language teaching