Martin Neef

List of John Benjamins publications for which Martin Neef plays a role.

Journal

Titles

Understanding Writing Systems

Edited by Merijn Beeksma and Martin Neef

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 21:1 (2018) v, 145 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Writing and literacy

Essays on Linguistic Realism

Edited by Christina Behme and Martin Neef

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 196] 2018. xiii, 300 pp.
Subjects Theoretical linguistics

Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness

Edited by Martin Neef and Guido Nottbusch

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 9:1 (2006) 181 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy

From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems

Edited by Martin Neef and Beatrice Primus †

Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 7:2 (2005) 207 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy

Articles

Neef, Martin 2019 In memoriam: Beatrice Primus (12 September 1953 – 29 November 2019)Writing Systems: Past, present (… and future?), Joyce, Terry and Robert Crellin (eds.), pp. 165–166 | Obituary
Beeksma, Merijn and Martin Neef 2018 Introduction: Understanding writing systemsUnderstanding Writing Systems, Beeksma, Merijn and Martin Neef (eds.), pp. 1–2 | Introduction
Behme, Christina and Martin Neef 2018 Introduction to Essays on Linguistic RealismEssays on Linguistic Realism, Behme, Christina and Martin Neef (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Chapter
Neef, Martin 2018 Chapter 7. Autonomous Declarative Phonology: A realist approach to the phonology of GermanEssays on Linguistic Realism, Behme, Christina and Martin Neef (eds.), pp. 185–202 | Chapter
In the paradigm of Linguistic Realism, phonology deals with abstract objects. Consequently, phonological units cannot be derived from phonetics as the material side of speech production and reception. I suggest a theoretical approach that conceives of phonology as autonomous from phonetics;… read more
Appelt, Annalen, Miriam Balestra and Martin Neef 2015 Orthographic constraints on the spelling of German a-soundsWritten Language & Literacy 18:1, pp. 153–174 | Article
In the framework of the Modular Writing System Theory (Neef 2005a), two levels of representation are distinguished that are relevant for the analysis of phonographic writing systems. These levels are called graphematics and systematic orthography, respectively. In this text, we focus on the latter… read more
Neef, Martin and Anneke Neijt 2014 In memoriam Robert SchreuderCross-linguistic transfer in reading in multilingual contexts – recent research trends, Zaretsky, Elena and Mila Schwartz (eds.), pp. 171–172 | Miscellaneous
Neef, Martin and Miriam Balestra 2013 Measuring graphematic transparency: German and Italian comparedTypology of Writing Systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 113–146 | Article
In this article, a quantitative method to calculate the graphematic transparency of an alphabetic writing system is suggested. Graphematic transparency is a part of the traditional concept of orthographic depth, dealing with the direction from written representation to phonological representation… read more
Neef, Martin 2012 Boundaries in written representations: The potential beginning of words in GermanUnits of Language – Units of Writing, Joyce, Terry and David Roberts (eds.), pp. 209–225 | Article
Formal theories of phonographic writing systems have to model, among other things, the regularities in the correspondences between written forms and phonological representations. In the ‘Recoding Model of Graphematics’ (Neef 2005a), correspondence rules for individual letters, supplemented with a… read more
Neef, Martin and Miriam Balestra 2011 Measuring graphematic transparency: German and Italian comparedTypology of writing systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 109–142 | Article
In this article, a quantitative method to calculate the graphematic transparency of an alphabetic writing system is suggested. Graphematic transparency is a part of the traditional concept of orthographic depth, dealing with the direction from written representation to phonological representation… read more
Neef, Martin and Guido Nottbusch 2006 Introduction: Script Adjustment and Phonological AwarenessScript Adjustment and Phonological Awareness, Neef, Martin and Guido Nottbusch (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Article
Neef, Martin 2005 The relation of vowel letters to phonological syllables in English and GermanFrom Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems, Neef, Martin and Beatrice Primus † (eds.), pp. 205–234 | Article
Assuming that a writing system is inevitably dependent on a language system, the main function of written representations is to give access to the basic representations of the language system. In this paper, I want to deal with graphematic phenomena, i.e. the relations of written representations to… read more
Primus, Beatrice † and Martin Neef 2005 Introduction: From letter to sound: New perspectives on writing systemsFrom Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems, Neef, Martin and Beatrice Primus † (eds.), pp. 133–138 | Article