Assorted interesting things

[James Crippen]

In Written Language & Literacy 12:1 there is an article by David
Roberts on "Visual Crowding and the tone orthography of African
languages", pp. 140–155. This might be of interest to those of you who
are involved with orthographic development and evaluation. Athabaskan
languages certainly don't have the tonal complexity of many African
languages, but diacritics do abound.

There is a question on the Linguist List about tautosyllabic consonant
cluster typology.
http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-3119.html

The Surrey Morphology Group and the Harvard linguistics department are
hosting a workshop in Cambridge, MA on morphological complexity.
http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-3142.html

John Benjamins has published a new book about lexicography, titled
"Lexicography in the 21st Century" and edited by Sandro Nielsen and
Sven Tarp.
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TLRP%2012

Cheers,
James