Geoffrey Sampson

Publications: Writing Skills and Writing Systems

Review of Spelling Trouble? Language, Ideology and the Reform of German Orthography, Linguist List 16.1737, 2005.

Review of Writing Systems by Henry Rogers, and Writing Systems by Florian Coulmas, to appear in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

“The structure of children’s writing: moving from spoken to adult written norms”, pp. 177–93 in S. Granger & S. Petch-Tyson, eds., Extending the Scope of Corpus-based Research: New Applications, New Challenges, Rodopi (Amsterdam), 2003.

Review of Learning to Read and Write by Harris and Hatano, Times Higher Education Supplement, 18.8.2000, p. 25.

Article on “Writing Systems”, The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, MIT Press, 1999.

“Chinese script and the diversity of writing systems”, Linguistics 32.117–32, 1994.

Review of The Linguistics of Punctuation by Geoffrey Nunberg, Linguistics 30.467–75, 1992.

Review of The Interface Between the Written and the Oral by Jack Goody, Quinquereme 11.198–200, 1988.

Review of The Writing Systems of the World by F. Coulmas, Journal of Linguistics 26.275–6, 1990.

Writing Systems, Hutchinson and Stanford University Press, 1985; second, revised edition, Hutchinson, 1987.

Portuguese translation published as Sistemas de Escrita, Editora Ática (São Paulo), 1996; Spanish translation published as Sistemas de Escritura, Gedisa (Barcelona), 1997; Korean translation published as Segyee’ui Munjach’egye, Han’guk Munhwasa (Seoul), 2000.

“Is roman type an open-ended system?”, Visible Language 17.410–12, nominally 1983 but actually 1984.

Pages on “Alphabet”, New Universal Dictionary, Longmans, 1982.

“Advantages of English spelling”, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses no. 3, pp. 1–13, 1981.

Geoffrey Sampson

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