AWLL13-Online | On the systematic nature of writing systems
2021 presenters
Dates:21-23 October 2021
Venue:Online (University of North Carolina, USA)
Invited speakers:Peter T. Daniels, Min Wang
Local organizer:David Mora-Marín
Programme committee:Lynne Cahill, Terry Joyce, David Mora-Marín, Dorit Ravid
Related materials: [Programme+Abstracts PDF] [Screen captures]
AWLL gratefully acknowledges the following academic units at the University of North Carolina for their funding support of AWLL13-Online. Thanks to their various donations, it has been possible to cover the conference's sundry expenses, without the need to levy registration fees.
Archaeology Curriculum; Carolina Asia Center; Department of Anthropology
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Department of Asian Studies; Department of Classics
Department of Linguistics, Department of Romance Languages, Institute for the Study of the Americas
AWLL13-Online programme and presentation PDFs
Day 1 oral session 1
Sven Osterkamp & Gordian Schreiber | A proposal for a formalized, expandable approach to the taxonomy of writing systems Recording
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Handout
Arvind Iyengar | Somewhere I belong: Non-abugidic alphasyllabaries, non-alphasyllabic abugidas and their typological classification Recording
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Dimitrios Meletis | Graphotactics, spatiality, and why writing should be studied independently from speech Recording
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Day 1 oral session 2
Mike Cahill | Usability is not enough: The criticality of sociolinguistic factors in the establishment of new orthographies Recording
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Leila Schroeder | Bridging an orthography chasm Recording
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Amalia Gnanadesikan | Segments and Syllables in Thaana and Hangul: Comparing literate native-speaker inventions Recording
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Robert J. Fouser | Searching for the perfect writing system: 20th century Hangeul reform proposals Recording
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Day 1 keynote
Peter T. Daniels | When is non-writing writing? or, when is writing non-writing? Recording
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Day 2 symposium: Writing systems of the Americas
Michael Carrasco & Joshua Englehardt | Enduring literacies: The emergence and maturation of writing systems in Ancient Mesoamerica Recording
Tomi S. Melka & Robert M. Schoch | T'oqapu patterns on Inqa textiles and other media: Do they constitute a writing system? Recording
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John W. Adams† | Notes on Gitksan crests, potlatching, and law [† presented by Alice B. Kasakoff; Bill Proudfit; John Justeson] Recording
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David Mora-Marín | A survey of systematic spelling practices and conventions in Mayan writing Recording
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Day 2 oral session 3
Dorit Ravid & Rachel Schiff | Hebrew affix spelling in children with developmental dyslexia Recording
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Martin Neef | On hidden reforms of the German official orthography Recording
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Lynne Cahill | A corpus analysis of the spread of standardised spelling in Middle English Recording
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Day 2 oral session 4
Martin Uildriks | A world-altering technology: Script development in Predynastic Upper Egypt Recording
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Rosso Manuel Senesi | Latin <X>: seeing double Recording
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Corinna Salomon | Alphabet systemisation in North Italic writing cultures Recording
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Day 3 keynote
Min Wang | Phonology beyond phoneme: Contribution of suprasegmental information to reading Recording
Day 3 oral session 5
Hana Jee, Monica Tamariz, & Richard Shillcock | Quantifying sound-graphic systematicity and application on multiple phonographs Recording
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Keisuke Honda | Types of ‘logography’ in the Japanese writing system Recording
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Terry Joyce & Hisashi Masuda | Systematic chaos or chaotic systems? Some ponderings on the complexity of the Japanese writing system Recording
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Day 3 poster session
Brian P. Bennett | The impact of Unicode: The case of Church Slavonic Recording
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John A. Bundschuh | Predicate marking strategies in early Japanese vernacular glossing: A preliminary study Recording
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Kevin Heffernan & Yo Sato | Predictors of script choice in Japanese: A data-driven study Recording
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Eleonora Selvi | A story without an end. The never reached systematization of the Pamphylian alphabet Recording
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Constanze Weth | Syntactic markers - a systematic category in writing systems Recording
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