Martin Neef
List of John Benjamins publications in which Martin Neef is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1387-6732 | E‑ISSN 1570‑6001
Understanding Writing Systems
Edited by Merijn Beeksma and Martin Neef
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 21:1 (2018) v, 145 pp.
Essays on Linguistic Realism
Edited by Christina Behme and Martin Neef
This book contains new articles by leading philosophers and linguists discussing a promising philosophical framework distinct from currently dominant ones: Linguistic Realism. As opposed to Nominalism and Chomskyian Conceptualism, this approach distinguishes between use of language, knowledge of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 196] 2018. xiii, 300 pp.
Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness
Edited by Martin Neef and Guido Nottbusch
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 9:1 (2006) 181 pp.
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.
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
2018 Introduction: Understanding writing systems Understanding Writing Systems, Beeksma, Merijn and Martin Neef (eds.), pp. 1–2 | Introduction
2018 Introduction to Essays on Linguistic Realism Essays on Linguistic Realism, Behme, Christina and Martin Neef (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Chapter
2018 Chapter 7. Autonomous Declarative Phonology: A realist approach to the phonology of German Essays 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
2015 Orthographic constraints on the spelling of German a-sounds Written 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
2014 In memoriam Robert Schreuder Cross-linguistic transfer in reading in multilingual contexts – recent research trends, Zaretsky, Elena and Mila Schwartz (eds.), pp. 171–172 | Miscellaneous
2013 Review of Siekmann (2011): Der Zusammenhang von Lesen und (Recht-)Schreiben Written Language & Literacy 16:2, pp. 285–287 | Review
2013 Measuring graphematic transparency: German and Italian compared Typology 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
2012 Boundaries in written representations: The potential beginning of words in German Units 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
2011 Review of Baines, Bennet & Houston (2008): The disappearance of writing systems: perspectives on literacy and communication Typology of writing systems, Borgwaldt, S. and Terry Joyce (eds.), pp. 157–159 | Review
2011 Measuring graphematic transparency: German and Italian compared Typology 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
2006 Introduction: Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness, Neef, Martin and Guido Nottbusch (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Article
2005 The relation of vowel letters to phonological syllables in English and German From 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
2005 Introduction: From letter to sound: New perspectives on writing systems From Letter to Sound: New perspectives on writing systems, Neef, Martin and Beatrice Primus † (eds.), pp. 133–138 | Article
1994 Review of Lieber (1992): Deconstructing morphology. Word formation in syntactic theory Studies in Language 18:1, pp. 219–229 | Review