The architecture of writing systems

Editors

Kristian Berg | University of Oldenburg, Germany

Franziska Buchmann | University of Oldenburg, Germany

Nanna Fuhrhop | University of Oldenburg, Germany

[Written Language & Literacy, 17:2] 2014. viii, 142 pp.

Publishing status: Available

Table of Contents

Articles
Foreword: The architecture of writing systems Kristian Berg, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop	vii–viii
Jōyō kanji as core building blocks of the Japanese writing system: Some observations from database construction Terry Joyce, Hisashi Masuda and Taeko Ogawa	173–194
The architecture of punctuation systems: A historical case study of the comma in German Frank Kirchhoff and Beatrice Primus †	195–224
What is special about orthographic processing? Jonathan Grainger and Thomas Hannagan	225–252
Morphophonographic regularities in German: the graphematic syllable boundary: A non-linear graphematic approach Karsten Schmidt	253–281
Morphological spellings in English Kristian Berg, Franziska Buchmann, Katharina Dybiec and Nanna Fuhrhop	282–307
Book review
Review of Mumin & Versteegh (2014): The Arabic script in Africa: Studies in the use of a writing system Reviewed by David Roberts	308–314

Subjects

CFC: Literacy

LAN010000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy