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| AWLL community |
| Links to sections of the core community member list: A-G | H-K | M-R | S-W |
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| 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. |
| ○ | As discussed at the AWLL15 business meeting, AWLL is currently reviewing the core community membership system. However, until the revision is determined, membership to AWLL’s core community continues to operate as an opt-in system (explicit request for core membership + profile) open to any participants of past AWLL conferences. |
| ○ | Eligible participants can opt-in by completing this Google form to request a core member profile. |
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| AWLL core community members |
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| Ahlberg, Aija Katriina |
| Participation: | AWLL12-15 |
| 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 |
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| Bar-On, Amalia |
| Participation: | AWLL3, 7, 10, 14-15 |
| Affiliation: | Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | reading acquisition; reading comprehension; spelling; language-learning disoreders |
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| Ben Zvi, Galit |
| Participation: | AWLL15 |
| Affiliation: | Ono Academic College, Israel |
| Email | Link(s): | email |
| Interests: | Reading acquisition, spelling, reading comprehension, language and learning disabilities |
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| 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) |
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| Cahill, Lynne |
| Participation: | AWLL5, 8-15 | AWLL9 local organizer | AWLL vice-president |
| 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 |
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| Cahill, Mike |
| Participation: | AWLL12-13 |
| Affiliation: | SIL International |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website; academia |
| Interests: | developing current orthographies, phonology (tone and labial-velars) |
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| Colomo, Katarina |
| Participation: | AWLL10, 14 |
| Affiliation: | Germanistik - Linguistik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Fortuny. Jordi |
| Participation: | AWLL15 |
| Affiliation: | Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics. University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website; researchgate |
| Interests: | linguistic theory, history of writing systems, typology of writing systems, cognitive basis of writing |
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| 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 |
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| Gabbay, Ariel |
| Participation: | AWLL14 |
| Affiliation: | Department of Hebrew Language, Orot Yisrael College of Education, Israel |
| Email | Link(s): | email |
| Interests: | Hebrew linguistics, morphology, teading traditions of Hebrew" |
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| 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 |
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| Gnanadesikan, Amalia |
| Participation: | AWLL12-15 |
| Email | Link(s): | email | academia |
| Interests: | writing systems typology; history of writing; South Asian languages; phonology |
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| Guidotti, Marta |
| Participation: | AWLL15 |
| Affiliation: | READSEARCH @Hasselt University (DSI & Art and Architecture), PXL University of applied scienced and arts |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | legibility, reading comfort, language diversity, typography |
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| Hamann, Silke |
| Participation: | AWLL10 |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | phonetics-phonology interface; formal model of speech perception; formal model of reading |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Harmsen, Wieke |
| Participation: | AWLL14-15 |
| 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 |
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| Harris, Lindsay |
| Participation: | AWLL15 |
| Affiliation: | Northern Illinois University, USA |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | psycholinguistics, grapholinguistics, braille, dyslexia |
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| Honda, Keisuke |
| Participation: | AWLL6, 8-15 |
| 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 |
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| Iyengar, Arvind |
| Participation: | AWLL13, 15 |
| 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 |
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| Joyce, Terry |
| Participation: | AWLL6-15 | AWLL11 local organizer | AWLL president | WLL associate editor |
| Affiliation: | School of Global Studies, Tama University, Japan |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website; researchgate |
| Interests: | Japanese writing system; typologies of writing systems; mental lexicon; visual word recognition |
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| 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 |
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| Kamykowska, Joanna |
| Participation: | AWLL14 |
| Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw |
| Email | Link(s): | email | ResearchGate |
| Interests: | psycholinguistics of reading, reading difficulties, Polish language |
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| 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 |
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| Li, Bai |
| Participation: | AWLL15 |
| Affiliation: | Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau |
| Email | Link(s): | email | researchgate |
| Interests: | psycholinguistics, applied Linguistics, SLA, endangered languages education |
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| Maresia, Annika Ester |
| Participation: | AWLL12-13 |
| Affiliation: | Independent scholar |
| Email | Link(s): | email |
| Interests: | Old English; orthography; runes; script change |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Meletis, Dimitrios |
| Participation: | AWLL10-15 | 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Myers, James |
| Participation: | AWLL12 |
| Affiliation: | National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | Chinese, psycholinguistics, corpus analysis |
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| Nag, Sonali |
| Participation: | AWLL12, 15 | AWLL12 keynote speaker |
| Affiliation: | University of Oxford, UK |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | writing systems, akshara writing system, literacy acquisition, cognitive-linguistic processes, assessment |
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| Neef, Martin |
| Participation: | AWLL1, 3-8, 10, 13 | AWLL6 local organizer | former AWLL secretary | WLL editorial board |
| Affiliation: | Institut für Germanistik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | graphematics; orthography; morphology; phonology |
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| Neijt, Anneke |
| Participation: | AWLL1-10 | AWLL1-3, 5, 10 local organizer | AWLL founding president [first honorary lifetime member] | WLL editorial board |
| Affiliation: | Department of Dutch Language and Culture, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| Email | Link(s): | email |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Ravid, Dorit |
| Participation: | AWLL2, 4, 7-8, 11-15 | AWLL11 keynote speaker | AWLL vice-president | 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; psycholinguistics of spelling; development of text production abilities |
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| Reinken, Niklas |
| Participation: | AWLL15 |
| Affiliation: | Leipzig University, Germany |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | graphetics, handwriting, punctuation, German writing system, typography |
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| Rimzhim, Anurag |
| Participation: | AWLL11-13 |
| Affiliation: | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Steven Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA |
| Email | Link(s): | email |
| Interests: | reading; psycholinguistics; Brahmi-derived orthographies; akshara; Hindi |
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| Roberts, David |
| Participation: | AWLL7, 9-14 | AWLL11 keynote speaker |
| Affiliation: | Independent linguistics, literacy and education consultant based in Togo |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | orthography development, tone, African languages |
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| Romei, Leonardo |
| Participation: | AWLL14 |
| Affiliation: | Independent researcher |
| Email | Link(s): | email |
| Interests: | synsemia; semiotics of communications; theory of writing and visual communication; information visualization |
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| Romstadt, Jonas |
| Participation: | AWLL15 |
| Affiliation: | University of Oldenburg, Germany |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | punctuation, corpus linguistics, German graphematics, usage-based graphematics, written language didactics |
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| Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor |
| Participation: | AWLL14-15 | AWLL15 keynote speaker |
| 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 |
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| Sampson, Geoffrey |
| Participation: | AWLL10, 12 | AWLL10 keynote speaker |
| 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 |
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| Santamaria, Andrea |
| Participation: | AWLL14 |
| Affiliation: | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Excellence Cluster ROOTS, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte |
| Email | Link(s): | email | website |
| Interests: | origins of writing systems; Aegean and Anatolian writing system of the Bronze Age; Indo-European historical phonology and morphology |
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| Steele, Philippa M. |
| Participation: | AWLL12-15 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Treiman, Rebecca |
| Participation: | AWLL6 | AWLL6 keynote speaker | 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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