Writing Systems and Linguistic Structure

Special Issue of Written Language & Literacy 12:2 (2009)

Editor

Sang-Oak Lee | Seoul National University & UCLA

[Written Language & Literacy, 12:2] 2009. iv, 134 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.12.2

Table of Contents

Introduction
Writing systems and linguistic structure Sang-Oak Lee	159–160
Articles
Model for phonemic awareness in readers of Indian script Aamir Wali, Richard Sproat, Prakash Padakannaya and Bhuvaneshwari B.	161–169
Language policy for China’s minorities: Orthography development for the Yi David Bradley	170–187
Discrepancies between sounds and graphs: Irregular readings of Chinese characters Ik-sang Eom	188–201
The Korean alphabet: An optimal featural system with graphical ingenuity Sang-Oak Lee	202–212
Homographic kanji, their ambiguity and the effectiveness of okurigana as a device for disambiguation Keisuke Honda	213–236
Choice of voice in Maya hieroglyphic writing Kosuke Matsukawa	237–257
The emblematic script of the Aztec codices as a particular semiotic type of writing system Liudmila L. Fedorova	258–275
Discussion
Two notes on terminology Peter T. Daniels	277–281
A response to Peter T. Daniels Heidi Swank	282–285
Book review
Review of Datta (2007): Bilinguality and literacy: Principles of practice Reviewed by Esther H. Ra	287–290
Contents of Volume 12

Subjects

Linguistics

Writing and literacy

Discourse studies

Language teaching