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12th AWLL international workshop on writing systems and literacy

	Theme:	Diversity of writing systems: Embracing multiple perspectives
	Dates:	26-28 March 2019
	Venue:	Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK
	Invited speakers:	Sonali Nag, Kathryn Piquette
	Local organizers:	Robert Crellin, Anna Judson
	Programme committee:	Lynne Cahill, Robert Crellin, Terry Joyce, Anna Judson, Dorit Ravid
	Related materials:	Programme+Abstracts [PDF]; Programme outline [link to lower section with presentation PDFs]; Business meeting minutes [PDF]; AWLL12 Photos [link to lower section]


Programme outline [with presentation PDFs]


Day 1 keynote
	Kathryn Piquette \| Developing integrated perspectives on writing systems

Day 1 oral session 1
	Dimitrios Meletis \| How we model writing: The relationship between language, speech, and writing in a universal model of writing	PDF
	Sven Osterkamp & Gordian Schreiber \| <Th>e Ubi<qu>ity of Polygra<ph> and its Significance for <th>e Typology of <Wr>iti<ng> Systems	PDF
	Terry Joyce \| The significance of the partial versus full writing dichotomy for the typology of writing systems	PDF

Day 1 poster session
	Sarah Finlayson \| Writing material matters: a discussion of the use of clay in the Bronze Age Aegean	PDF
	Yannis Haralambous \| Phonocentrism in Greece: Side effects of two centuries of diglossia	PDF
	Keisuke Honda \| Modelling kanji as a subsignary of the current Japanese writing system	PDF
	Yoolim Kim & Sandra Kotzor \| Investigating the “hidden” effects of Hanja script on Korean processing
	Rachel Schiff & Dorit Ravid \| Spelling function letters in Hebrew: a psycholinguistic outlook	PDF +PDF
	Karin Westin Tikkanen \| Alphabetic adaptations on the Apennine Peninsula	PDF
	Mira E. Valkama \| Graphisation, representation and inclusion in orthography development	PDF

Day 1 oral session 2
	Amalia Gnanadesikan \| Brahmi’s children: variation and stability in a script family	PDF
	Anurag Rimzhim \| Transposition Effects Underscore the Alphabetic Nature of Reading Hindi

Day 1 symposium: Research into ancient writing systems at Cambridge
	Philippa Steele & Robert Crellin \| Contextualising writing in the ancient world: two case studies	PDF
	Ester Salgarella & Anna Judson \| Diversity and variation in the writing systems of Bronze Age Greece	PDF
	Imre Galambos \| The Chinese script among China’s neighbours


Day 2 oral session 3
	Victoria Beatrix Fendel \| The Coptic alphabet: Taking the initiative or seizing an opportunity?
	Kelly Minot Rafey \| The Character of Writing in Early Modern Shorthand, 1588–1700	PDF
	Philip Boyes \| Multiscriptality and Society in Late Bronze Age Ugarit

Day 2 keynote
	Sonali Nag \| Emergent and early literacy: how children learn to use a writing system

Day 2 poster session
	Aija Katriina Ahlberg \| Changing a writing system: the case of Konso	PDF +PDF
	Cassandra Donnelly \| Regional Pressures in the Formation and Use of Cypro-Minoan (presented in absentia)	PDF
	Hana Jee & Richard Shillcock \| Measuring how orthographic form correlates with phonological form	PDF
	Hisashi Masuda & Terry Joyce \| A database of three-kanji compound words in Japanese, with particular focus on their morphological structures	PDF
	Kazuhiro Okada \| Diverse standards in the pre-modern Japanese orthography	PDF
	Chiara Truppi & Barbara Hans-Bianchi \| The emergence of writing in multilingual settings: comparing two case studies	PDF
	Martin Uildriks \| Markings in Emerging States: What is their Socio-Cultural Context? (presented in absentia)
	Lieke Verheijen & Tess van der Laan \| Is Digi-talk Dangerous? The Effects of Social Media on Dutch Youths’ School Writing
	Małgorzata Zadka \| Semasiographic aspects of glottographic writing systems	PDF

Day 2 oral session 4
	Lynne Cahill \| Recording verbatim speech in UK court reporting
	Dorit Ravid, Rachel Schiff & Michal Kahanoovitch \| Root letter spelling in Hebrew: a developmental study in two populations	PDF
	Des Ryan \| How do we know if a spelling is a good fit for a word? Interactions between ‘morphemic’ and ‘phonemic’ spelling	PDF

Day 2 oral session 5
	Daniel Harbour \| Grammatical typology predicts writing system evolution: A case study in Sumerosphere and Sinosphere logography
	James Myers \| The influence of Chinese character form on neighboring orthographic systems	PDF


Day 3 oral session 6
	Christian Prager \| What’s in a Sign? Unbridled Aesthetics and Calligraphic Constraints in Classic Maya Palaeography
	Sam Butler \| Inscribing Communities across the Mediterranean: A Comparative Approach to the Lycian and Oscan Alphabets in the first Millennium BCE

Day 3 oral session 7
	David Roberts, Matthew Harley & Stephen L. Walter \| The contribution of full tone marking to fluency and comprehension in Yoruba and Ife	PDF
	Maayan Tadmor-Troyansky & David L. Share \| Phonological Awareness in the Hebrew Abjad: Consonants, Vowels, and Core Syllables	PDF


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AWLL12 participants!


Day 1 presentations

AWLL12 opening remarks \| Workshop theme	AWLL12 opening remarks \| Terry Joyce

Day 1 keynote \| Kathryn Piquette	Day 1 oral session 1 \| Dimitrios Meletis

Day 1 oral session 1 \| Sven Osterkamp & Gordian Schreiber	Day 1 oral session 1 \| Terry Joyce

Day 1 poster session \| Sarah Finlayson	Day 1 poster session \| Yannis Haralambous

Day 1 poster session \| Keisuke Honda	Day 1 poster session \| Yoolim Kim

Day 1 poster session \| Rachel Schiff & Dorit Ravid	Day 1 poster session \| Karin Westin Tikkanen

Day 1 poster session \| Mira E. Valkama	Day 1 oral session 2 [remote] \| Anurag Rimzhim

Day 1 oral session 2 \| Amalia Gnanadesikan	Day 1 symposium \| Philippa Steele

Day 1 symposium \| Robert Crellin	Day 1 symposium \| Ester Salgarella

Day 1 symposium \| Anna Judson	Day 1 symposium \| Imre Galambos


Day 2 presentations

Day 2 oral session 3 \| Victoria Beatrix Fendel	Day 2 oral session 3 \| Kelly Minot Rafey

Day 2 oral session 3 \| Philip Boyes	Day 2 keynote \| Sonali Nag

Day 2 poster session \| Aija Katriina Ahlberg	Day 2 poster session \| Cassandra Donnelly

Day 2 poster session \| Hana Jee & Richard Shillcock	Day 2 poster session \| Hisashi Masuda & Terry Joyce

Day 2 poster session \| Kazuhiro Okada	Day 2 poster session \| Chiara Truppi & Barbara Hans-Bianchi

Day 2 poster session \| Martin Uildriks	Day 2 poster session \| Lieke Verheijen & Tess van der Laan

Day 2 poster session \| Małgorzata Zadka	Day 2 oral session 4 \| Lynne Cahill

Day 2 oral session 4 \| Dorit Ravid, Rachel Schiff & Michal Kahanoovitch	Day 2 oral session 4 \| Des Ryan

Day 2 oral session 5 \| Daniel Harbour	Day 2 oral session 5 \| James Myers


Day 3 presentations

Day 3 oral session 6 \| Christian Prager	Day 3 oral session 6 \| Sam Butler

Day 3 oral session 7 \| David Roberts, Matthew Harley & Stephen L. Walter	Day 3 oral session 7 \| Maayan Tadmor-Troyansky & David L. Share

Day 3 panel session	Day 3 panel session