The Relation of Writing to Spoken Language / / ed. by Martin Neef, Richard Sproat, Anneke Neijt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Borgwaldt, Susanne R.,; Bredel, Ursula,; Geilfuß-Wolfgang, Jochen,; Gillis, Steven,; Groot, Annette M.B. de,; Heuven, Vincent J. van,; Lindauer, Thomas,; Neef, Martin,; Neijt, Anneke,; Noack, Christina,; Ravid, Dorit,; Sproat, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Neef, Martin,; Neijt, Anneke,; Sproat, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2012]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten , 460
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.) :; Num. figs.

This volume grew out of the workshop Writing Language, held at the Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen. The papers represent several lines of research into the intricate relation between writing and spoken language: Theoretical and computational linguists discuss the models that explain why orthographies...

Table of Contents

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• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Section 1: Consistency
• The Interfaces of Writing and Grammar
• The Consistency of the Orthographically Relevant Level in Dutch
• Section 2: Cross-Linguistic Studies
• Beyond the Rime: Measuring the Consistency of Monosyllabic and Polysyllabic Words
• Teachers’ Perception of Spelling Patterns and Children’s Spelling Errors: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
• Section 3: Diacritics and Punctuation
• Effects of Diaeresis on Visual Word Recognition in Dutch
• Optimal Hyphenation
• The Dash in German
• Section 4: Sharpening in German
• Regularities in German Orthography: A Computer-Based Comparison of Different Approaches to Sharpening
• The Reader’s View: Sharpening in German
• How Syllable Structure affects Spelling: A Case Study in Swiss German Syllabification
• Addresses of Contributors