The World's Writing Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11113100 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles F Hockett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 379 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The world's writing systems, Peter T Daniels, 1996 |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/416027 |
| OpenAlex | W2325864482 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Linguistics · Writing system · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
Šawaš IlI?i-šawaš wawa -- 'Indian country--Indian language
Constituent and gestalt priming effects
Relating linguistic reconstructions of plant names in Berber to the archaeobotany of North Africa
Putting Our Scripts in Their Mouths
The Vowel System of Jewish Bukharan Tajik
The Judeo-Spanish Language of R. Moses Almosnino in Light of a Newly Discovered Manuscript of His Treatise on the Astrolabe
XML Annotation of Hebrew Elements in Judeo-Arabic Texts
Biologising reading problems
Exploring Commensality in Sikh foodways
On an Armenian Word List from the Cairo Geniza
Words of War
Presence of ‘Arabic’ in Kuala Lumpur’s multilingual linguistic landscape
Early Thai orthography
Tai Dam orthographies
How children learn to use a writing system
Brahmi’s children
The international impact of Sequoyah’s Cherokee syllabary
Areal script form patterns with Chinese characteristics
The syllabary used by the Kickapoo in Mexico
The credibility of movement-writing
The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
The Taxonomy of Writing Systems
How Much Does Lookahead Matter for Disambiguation? Partial Arabic Diacritization Case Study
Principles of variation in the use of diacritics (taškīl) in Arabic books
Writing in the World and Linguistics
Testing the Learnability of Writing Systems
Modeling the impact of orthographic coding on Czech–Polish and Bulgarian–Russian reading intercomprehension
Minding the gaps
The Archaeology of Communication Technologies
Some epigraphic and archaeological documents from Western Anatolia during the late Ottoman period
Look with thine ears”
The Meroitic script and the understanding of alpha-syllabic writing
Learning to Read and Developmental Dyslexia in Hebrew
Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read
The effects of orthographic depth on learning to read alphabetic, syllabic, and logographic scripts
Is the Science of Reading Just the Science of Reading English
Mesoamerican Literacies
Diglossic and Orthographic Features of Reading Comprehension in Standard Arabic
Allographs, graphic variants and iconic formulae in the kohau rongorongo script of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Numerals and phonetic complements in the Kohau rongorongo script of Easter Island
Writing systems
Marathi of a Single Type
Transposition Effects in an Aksharic Writing System
A New Reading of the Bactrian Part of the Dašt-i Nāwur Trilingual (DN I)
Introduction
Empires, Languages, and Scripts in the Perso-Indian World
The Egyptian origin of the Greek alphabetic numerals
Daya Cave
Sound and Spelling
Cuneiform
Decipherment
Cuneiform
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing
The Linguistic Prehistory of the Sahara
Writing System Variation and Its Consequences for Reading and Dyslexia
Historiography of the Ayyūbid and Mamlūk epochs
Autonomous Egypt from Ibn Tūlūn to Kāfūr, 868–969
Three Models of Script Transfer
Bright, William O
Sign Languages
Orthography
Writing and Writing Systems
The twisting path of runes from the Greek alphabet
Text and the City
Systems of Communication
Neuroscience, Linguistics and Psycholinguistics Advances Applied to Early Literacy Teaching
Grapholinguistic wars
E Ubi Ity of Polygra Y and Its Significan for E Typology of Iti Systems
Human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased
Thinking through talking to yourself
Word length and frequency effects on text reading are highly similar in 12 alphabetic languages
Do readers exert language control when switching alphabets within a language
Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation holds for individual characters across a broad range of writing systems
Graphic complexity in writing systems
Letter processing in Russian
A post-Bloomfieldian’s last stand
The logics of enclosure
Signs from the Depths
The long march to Unicode
Mapping Texts
Cherokee and West Africa
"Language, writing, and disciplinarity in the Critique of the "Ideographic Myth
The Lexical and Post-Lexical Phonology of Thai Tones
From "Easy Phonetics" to the Syllabary
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |