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: AWLL12-13
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, 8-13; 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
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
Gnanadesikan, Amalia
Participation: AWLL12-13
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
Honda, Keisuke
Participation: AWLL6, 8-13
Affiliation: Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication, Imperial College London, UK | Oxford University Language Centre, University of Oxford, UK
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 | AWLL6-13; AWLL11 local organizer | WLL associate editor
Affiliation: School of Global Studies, Tama University, Japan
Email | Link(s): email | website; academia
Interests: Japanese writing system (including L2 instruction); Phonetic complementation; Typologies of writing systems; Phonography/non-phonography interface
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
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: AWLL10-13; 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: AWLL10-13
Affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of Graz, Austria
Email | Link(s): email | academia
Interests: theoretical grapholinguistics; comparative grapholinguistics; orthography; universals of writing
Mora-Marín, David F
Participation: AWLL10, 13; 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
Ravid, Dorit
Participation: AWLL vice-president | AWLL2, 4, 7-8, 11-13 | 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, 9-13
Affiliation: Independent linguistics, literacy and education consultant based in Togo
Email | Link(s): email | website; academia
Interests: tone orthography, African languages
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
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
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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