On the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems
Edited by David F. Mora-Marín and Lynne Cahill
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 26:1 (2023) v, 153 pp.
Lynne Cahill
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lynne Cahill is involved.
Titles
Orthographic Databases and Lexicons
Edited by Lynne Cahill and Terry Joyce
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 20:1 (2017) v, 127 pp.
2023 The standardisation of spelling in Middle English: The case of said On the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems, Mora-Marín, David F. and Lynne Cahill (eds.), pp. 131–153 | Article
The standardisation of English spelling is widely assumed to have happened, or at least started, during the fifteenth century, with a variety of theories about the location and spread of the process. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of a single spelling feature: the vowel in the word… read more
2023 On the systematic nature of writing systems On the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems, Mora-Marín, David F. and Lynne Cahill (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
2017 What are the “phonemes” in phoneme-grapheme mappings? A perspective on the use of databases for lexicon development Orthographic Databases and Lexicons, Cahill, Lynne and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 104–127 | Article
The CELEX lexical database (Baayen, Piepenbrock & van Rijn 1995) was developed in the 1990s, providing a database of the syntactic, morphological, phonological and orthographic forms of between 50,000 and 125,000 words of Dutch, English and German. This database was used as the basis for the… read more
2017 Orthographic databases and lexicons: Introduction to the Special Issue Orthographic Databases and Lexicons, Cahill, Lynne and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Introduction
2013 PolyOrth: Orthography, phonology and morphology in inheritance lexicons Written Language & Literacy 16:2, pp. 146–185 | Article
The relationship between orthography, phonology and morphology varies with different languages and writing systems. These relationships are by no means random. They follow rules, albeit with exceptions, even for relatively irregular languages like English. In this paper, we present the PolyOrth… read more