AWLL community
Section links for list of community members:
A-G;
H-K;
M-R;
S-W

AWLL community explained
AWLL’s mailing list is open to anyone interested in ocassionally receving information emails from AWLL, including its periodic newsletters and workshop calls.
Requests to be added to (or removed from) the mailing list may be directed to AWLL president.
Membership to AWLL’s core community is based primarily on attending AWLL workshops, such that participants to any of the three most recent workshops may regarded themselves as AWLL’s core community members.
Only AWLL core community members are eligible to have a brief member profile included below. Please note, however, as this profile-sharing is entirely on a voluntary basis, such that eligible community members are requested to provide the profile information and grant permission to upload by contacting the AWLL president.
Community members are also requested to assist in keeping your profile up-to-date, by informing of any changes, such as affiliation and email addresses.
Starting from AWLL14, workshop registration fees will include a small percentage, as a minimal contribution to funding future AWLL activities, such as providing support to participate at AWLL workshops.
Core community members may also benefit from a special price subscription to the related Written Language & Literacy (WLL) journal, which the publishers, John Benjamins, graciously offer to AWLL members. In order to benefit from this offer, members need to initiate their subscription using a special AWLL version of the journal subscription form (available from AWLL president).
Although WLL subscription is no longer a prerequisite for AWLL membership, members who continue to renew their special-offer WLL subscription will continue to be regarded as AWLL community members, even if not participating at any of the recent AWLL workshops.
Members of WLL’s editorial board are also entitled to be members of AWLL core community and, upon confirmation, have a member profile included below.
Core member profiles include four sections: Under the member’s name [surname, given name order]; (1) ‘participation’ row indicates the individual’s membership basis (i.e., primarily AWLL workshops attended, as well as noting AWLL and WLL roles); (2) the optional ‘Affiliation’ row notes the member’s institutional affiliations (i.e., departmental and university names), if applicable; (3) the ‘Email | Link(s)’ row includes, in addition to an email address (mailer link), up to two links to the member’s individual websites (including self-maintained sites, institutional pages, or an academic social networking sites, such as ResearchGate or Academia pages); (4) the ‘Interests’ row includes a maximum of five keywords, which reflect the member’s research interests.

AWLL core community members
Ahlberg, Aija Katriina
Participation: AWLL12-14
Affiliation: Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: interplay between script and phonological awareness; transfer literacy; Ethiopic script

Berman, Ruth A
Participation: WLL editorial board
Affiliation: Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: Later language development, language acquisition, spoken and written language (focus on Modern Hebrew)

Cahill, Lynne
Participation: AWLL vice-president | AWLL4, 8-14; AWLL9 local organizer
Affiliation: School of English, University of Sussex, UK
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: Relationship between orthography, phonology and morphology; lexicons; variant spelling (ancient and modern); transliteration

Cahill, Mike
Participation: AWLL12-13
Affiliation: SIL International
Email | Link(s): email | website; academia
Interests: developing current orthographies, phonology (tone and labial-velars)

Colomo, Katarina
Participation: AWLL10, 14
Affiliation: Germanistik - Linguistik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Email | Link(s): email | website

Crellin, Robert
Participation: AWLL11-13; AWLL12 local organizer
Affiliation: ‘Crossreads’ project, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
Email | Link(s): email | website; academia
Interests: Writing systems typology; metaphysics of writing; Indo-European & Semitic linguistics; Computational linguistics; Biblical studies

Cruttenden, Alan
Participation: AWLL13
Affiliation: Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: Comparative intonation, child language, phonetics of English, writing systems

Fuhrhop, Nanna
Participation: AWLL6~8; AWLL8 local organizer | WLL editorial board
Affiliation: Institut für Germanistik, Carl Von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: graphematics (in German and in comparison), morphology, graphematics-morphology interface

Gabbay, Ariel
Participation: AWLL14
Affiliation: : Department of Hebrew Language, Orot Yisrael College of Education, Israel
Email | Link(s): email
Interests:

Garton, Rachel
Participation: AWLL14
Affiliation: The University of North Texas
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: writing system development/evolution, literacy processing and acquisition, grapholinguistic theory, kanji/hanzi structure

Gnanadesikan, Amalia
Participation: AWLL12-14
Email | Link(s): email | academia
Interests: writing systems typology; history of writing; South Asian languages; phonology

Hamann, Silke
Participation: AWLL10
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: Phonetics-phonology interface; formal model of speech perception; formal model of reading

Hans-Bianchi, Barbara
Participation: AWLL12-13
Affiliation: Department of Human Studies, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Email | Link(s): email | website; academia
Interests: German Language; Orthography; Spelling acquisition; Contact Linguistics; Grammaticalisation

Haralambous, Yannis
Participation: AWLL12
Affiliation: IMT Atlantique & CNRS UMR 6285 Lab-STICC, France
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: grapholinguistics, natural language processing, Unicode, typography, comparative graphemics

Harbour, Daniel
Participation: AWLL12-13
Affiliation: Queen Mary University of London, UK
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: pristine writing systems; borrowed writing systems; linguistic typology; generative grammar; cultural evolution

Harley, Matthew
Participation: AWLL12
Affiliation: SIL Nigeria & Linguistics and Translation Department, Theological College of Northern Nigeria, Bukuru, Plateau State, Nigeria
Email | Link(s): email | academia
Interests: orthography design;Nigerian languages; grammar; discourse; translation

Harmsen, Wieke
Participation: AWLL14
Affiliation: Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Email | Link(s): email | academia
Interests: automatic reading and writing diagnositics, language and speech technology, Dutch language

Honda, Keisuke
Participation: AWLL6, 8-14
Affiliation: School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University
Email | Link(s): email | researchgate
Interests: Japanese writing system (including L2 instruction); phonetic complementation; typologies of writing systems; phonography/non-phonography interface

Iyengar, Arvind
Participation: AWLL13
Affiliation: Discipline of Linguistics, University of New England, Australia
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: writing systems typology (graphematic and sociolinguistic); graphematics-orthography interface; segmentaries

Joyce, Terry
Participation: AWLL president | AWLL6-14; AWLL11 local organizer | WLL associate editor
Affiliation: School of Global Studies, Tama University, Japan
Email | Link(s): email | website; academia
Interests: Japanese writing system; typologies of writing systems; mental lexicon; visual word recognition

Judson, Anna P
Participation: AWLL11-12; AWLL12 local organizer
Affiliation: British School at Athens
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: writing systems; Linear B; Aegean Bronze Age; Mycenaean Greek

Kamykowska, Joanna
Participation: AWLL14
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw
Email | Link(s): email | ResearchGate
Interests: psycholinguistics of reading, reading difficulties, Polish language

Kim, Jeong-Young
Participation: AWLL7-8, 11
Affiliation: Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: L2 phonology, Writing system, Language acquisition, Language education, Korean as a foreign language

Maresia, Annika Ester
Participation: AWLL12-13
Affiliation: English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, UK
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: Old English; orthography; runes; script change

Masuda, Hisashi
Participation: AWLL10-14; AWLL11 local organizer
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: Japanese writing system; kanji; kana; visual word recognition

McCay, Kelly
Participation: AWLL12-13
Affiliation: History Department, Harvard University, USA
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: History of language + linguistic thought; Shorthand; Book history; Constructed languages

Meletis, Dimitrios
Participation: AWLL10-14 | WLL editorial board
Affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria
Email | Link(s): email | academia
Interests: theoretical grapholinguistics; comparative grapholinguistics; orthography; universals of writing

Mora-Marín, David F
Participation: AWLL10, 13-14; AWLL13 local organizer
Affiliation: Linguistics Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Email | Link(s): email | website; academia
Interests: Mayan writing, Olmec writing, systematic spelling conventions, historical sociolinguistics, paleography

Myers, James
Participation: AWLL12
Affiliation: National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: Chinese, psycholinguistics, corpus analysis

Nag, Sonali
Participation: AWLL12
Affiliation: Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK | The Promise Foundation, Bangalore, India
Email | Link(s): email; email | website; LinguaAkshara
Interests: akshara writing system, writing systems of Asia, teaching and assessment

Neef, Martin
Participation: AWLL former secretary | AWLL1, 3-8, 10, 13; AWLL6 local organizer | WLL editorial board
Affiliation: Institut für Germanistik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: Graphematics; orthography; morphology; phonology

Neijt, Anneke
Participation: AWLL founding president [First honorary lifetime member] | AWLL1~10; AWLL1~3, 5, 10 local organizer | WLL editorial board
Affiliation: Department of Dutch Language and Culture, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Email | Link(s): email

Okada, Kazuhiro
Participation: AWLL 9, 12, 14
Affiliation: Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Japan
Email | Link(s): email | Researchmap
Interests: History of the Japanese writing system; Typologies of writing systems

Pae, Hye
Participation: AWLL 11, 14
Affiliation: School of Education, University of Cincinnati, USA
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: Psycholinguistics, second language learning, Korean writing system, grapholinguistics

Ravid, Dorit
Participation: AWLL vice-president | AWLL2, 4, 7-8, 11-14 | WLL general editor
Affiliation: School of Education and the Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: Hebrew linguistics; Developmental psycholinguistics; Morphology; The psycholinguistics of spelling; The development of text production abilities

Rimzhim, Anurag
Participation: AWLL11-13
Affiliation: Department of Psychological Science, Central Connecticut State University, USA; Haskins Laboratories, USA
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: Reading; Psycholinguistics; Brahmi-derived orthographies; Akshara; Hindi

Roberts, David
Participation: AWLL7, 9-14
Affiliation: Independent linguistics, literacy and education consultant based in Togo
Email | Link(s): email | website; academia
Interests: tone orthography, African languages

Romei, Leonardo
Participation: AWLL14
Affiliation: Independent researcher
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: synsemia; semiotics of communications; theory of writing and visual communication; information visualization

Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor
Participation: AWLL14
Affiliation: English Literature and Linguistics | Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Centre; Bar Ilan University
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: reading acquisition, Arabic language and literacy acquisition, spelling, diglossia/dialects, bilingualism, second language literacy

Sampson, Geoffrey
Participation: AWLL10, 12
Affiliation: Informatics Department, Sussex University, UK [retired emeritus professor]
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: empiricist v. rationalist accounts of human language ability; writing systems; Classical Chinese language; quantitative approaches in linguistics

Santamaria, Andrea
Participation: AWLL14
Affiliation: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Excellence Cluster ROOTS, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: origins of writing systems; Aegean and Anatolian writing system of the Bronze Age; Indo-European historical phonology and morphology

Steele, Philippa M.
Participation: AWLL12-13
Affiliation: Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Email | Link(s): email | website; CREWS
Interests: Early writing systems; grapholinguistics; Greek and Cypriot writing; ancient Mediterranean and Near East; holistic/interdisciplinary approaches to writing

Symanczyk Joppe, Vilma
Participation: AWLL8~10
Affiliation: Germanistik / Institut für Linguistik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: structural signs; space insertion; hyphenation; optimality theory & written language; non-orthographic variants

Tikkanen, Karin Westin
Participation: AWLL12
Affiliation: Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala university, Sweden
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: Sabellian languages, Archaic Latin, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian

Treiman, Rebecca
Participation: AWLL6 | WLL editorial board
Affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: Psycholinguistics of reading and spelling

Truppi, Chiara
Participation: AWLL12
Affiliation: Centro de Linguística, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Email | Link(s): email | website; academia
Interests: Creole Languages; Guinea-Bissau and Upper Guinea Creoles; Mande and Atlantic Languages; Orthography; Spelling Acquisition

Verheijen, Lieke
Participation: AWLL9-10, 12
Affiliation: Department of Language and Communication, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Email | Link(s): email | website; academia
Interests: digital writing; computer-mediated communication; social media; youth language; literacy

Wehmeyer, Ann Kathryn
Participation: AWLL11
Affiliation: Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: Old Japanese writing system; orthography; writing systems typology

Weth, Constanze
Participation: AWLL10, 12-14 | WLL editorial board
Affiliation: University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Email | Link(s): email | website
Interests: Writing systems in contact, graphematics-morphology-interface, graphematics-syntax-interface, spelling acquisition, invented spelling

Wiebe, Bruce
Participation: AWLL11
Affiliation: Canada Institute of Linguistics; SIL
Email | Link(s): email
Interests: orthography development; phonological theory and orthography; tone orthography; orthography testing; Niger-Congo languages

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