The Relation of Writing to Spoken Language

by Martin / Sproat Neef (Editor)

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 Theoretical and computational linguists discuss the models that explain why orthographies are the way they are and the constraints that hold between writing and speaking a language researchers in special education deal with the question of how certain aspects of orthography can be learned and psycholinguists discuss aspects of language processing affected by variation in orthographies.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002