LINGUIST List 22.879 Tue Feb 22 2011 TOC: Written Language & Literacy 14/1 (2011) Editor for this issue: Justin Petro <justinlinguistlist.org> Directory         1.     Paul Peranteau , Written Language & Literacy Vol. 14, No. 1 (2011) Message 1: Written Language & Literacy Vol. 14, No. 1 (2011) Date: 22-Feb-2011 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Written Language & Literacy Vol. 14, No. 1 (2011) E-mail this message to a friend Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Journal Title: Written Language and Literacy Volume Number: 14 Issue Number: 1 Issue Date: 2011 Subtitle: Typology of writing systems Main Text: Typology of writing systems Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 14:1 (2011) Edited by Susanne R. Borgwaldt and Terry Joyce TU Braunschweig, Germany / Tama University, Japan Written Language & Literacy 14:1 2011. v, 159 pp. Table of contents Typology of writing systems: Special issue introduction Terry Joyce and Susanne R. 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 John Baines, John Bennet, and Stephen Houston (eds.). The disappearance of writing systems: perspectives on literacy and communication. London: Equinox, 2008. Pp xviii, 378 Reviewed by Martin Neef 157–159 Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Text/Corpus Linguistics                             Typology                             Writing Systems                             Applied Linguistics                             Ling & Literature Subject Language(s): German, Standard (deu)                             Italian (ita)                             Japanese (jpn)                             Portuguese (por) New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.