Diversity of Writing Systems: Embracing Multiple Perspectives

The special issue of Written Language & Literacy containing papers from this conference is now published!

Citation: Amalia E. Gnanadesikan & Anna P. Judson (eds), Diversity of Writing Systems: Embracing Multiple Perspectives. Written Language & Literacy 24:2 (2021)

The whole issue is available (with subscription to WLL) here.

Table of Contents, with links to open-access versions of papers where available:

• Diversity in writing systems: Embracing multiple perspectives. Amalia E. Gnanadesikan & Anna P. Judson, pp. 167–170
• <Th>e ubi<qu>ity of polygra<ph>y and its significan<ce> for <th>e typology of <wr>iti<ng> systems. Sven Osterkamp & Gordian Schreiber, pp. 171–197
• The missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle: A psycholinguistic account of the beginnings of the Coptic alphabet. Victoria Fendel, pp. 198–228
• ‘Reading’ through the body in early Egypt: Meaning as mediated and modified. Kathryn E. Piquette, pp. 229–258
• Areal script form patterns with Chinese characteristics. James Myers, pp. 259–283
• How children learn to use a writing system: Mapping evidence from an Indic orthography to written language in children’s books. Sonali Nag, pp. 284–302
• Brahmi’s children: Variation and stability in a script family. Amalia E. Gnanadesikan, pp. 303–335