Understanding Writing Systems

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 21:1 (2018)

Editors

Merijn Beeksma | Radboud University

Martin Neef | TU Braunschweig

[Written Language & Literacy, 21:1] 2018. v, 145 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.21.1

Table of Contents

Introduction: Understanding writing systems

Merijn Beeksma & Martin Neef | pp. 1–2

Articles

From phonemic spelling to distinctive spelling

Geoffrey Sampson | pp. 3–25
Core syllables vs. moraic writing

Eugene Buckley | pp. 26–51
What is natural in writing? Prolegomena to a Natural Grapholinguistics

Dimitrios Meletis | pp. 52–88
Optimal spaces and hyphens: A constraint-based analysis of compound word formation

Vilma Symanczyk Joppe | pp. 89–110
Orthographic principles in computer-mediated communication: The SUPER-functions of textisms and their interaction with age and medium

Lieke Verheijen | pp. 111–145

Subjects & Metadata

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Language teaching

Writing and literacy

BIC Subject: CFC – Literacy

BISAC Subject: LAN010000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy