Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

Inhalt: Martin Neef/Anneke Neijt/Richard Sproat, Introduction. - Anneke Neijt, The Interfaces of Writing and Grammar. - Richard Sproat, The Consistency of the Orthographically Relevant Level in Dutch. - Susanne R. Borgwaldt/Annette M.B. de Groot, Beyond the Rime: Measuring the Consistency of Monosyllabic and Polysyllabic Words. - Dorit Ravid/Steven Gillis, Teachers' Perception of Spelling Patterns and Children's Spelling Errors: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. - Vincent J. van Heuven, Effects of Diaeresis on Visual Word Recognition in Dutch. - Jochen Geilfuß-Wolfgang, Optimal Hyphenation. - Ursula Bredel, The Dash in German. - Christina Noack, Regularities in German Orthography: A Computer-Based Comparison of Different Approaches to Sharpening. - Martin Neef, The Reader's View: Sharpening in German. - Thomas Lindauer, How Syllable Structure affects Spelling: A Case Study in Swiss German Syllabification.