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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)




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