The paper analyses systematic variations in the way words are separated by spaces (WS variations) in German...
Keywords: spelling variants, spaces between words, word boundaries, German orthography, spelling reform, Optimality Theory
01/2007 | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Walter de GruyterUsing capital letters within sentences not only for proper names but also for nouns is a specific feature of the German writing system...
Keywords: German orthography, historical development of capitalizing nouns, pseudoword dictation, pseudoword spelling, spelling acquisition, use of capital letters
01/2007 | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Walter de Gruyter