Brett Kessler
List of John Benjamins publications in which Brett Kessler is involved.
Articles
2013 Similarities among the shapes of writing and their effects on learning Typology of Writing Systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 41–60 | Article
Writing systems are usually studied in terms of the level of language that they represent, with little attention to the shapes that are used to do so. Those shapes are not random or accidental, however. They tend to be similar to one another within a script. Many of the Latin letters have a roughly… read more
2011 Similarities among the shapes of writing and their effects on learning Typology of writing systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 39–57 | Article
Writing systems are usually studied in terms of the level of language that they represent, with little attention to the shapes that are used to do so. Those shapes are not random or accidental, however. They tend to be similar to one another within a script. Many of the Latin letters have a… read more
2003 Review of Renfrew, McMahon & Trask (2000): Time Depth in Historical Linguistics Diachronica 20:2, pp. 373–377 | Review