Des Ryan
Contact Information
Email: ryand25@tcd.ie
Website: http://tcd.academia.edu/DesRyan
Address: Centre for Language and Communication Studies,
Arts Building,
Trinity College Dublin,
College Green,
Dublin 2
Quicklinks
Research Interests
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English spelling: the Goode, the bant and the fugly.
New kinds of written forms.
Historical Phonology.
Current Projects
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PhD thesis: Principles of English spelling: from Beowulf 2 bootylicious.
Publications
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The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing system (due 2016). co-edited with Vivian Cook (Professor Emeritas, Newcastle University).
2016a: Introduction to the study of the English writing system.
2016b: 'Modern theories of English spelling'
both in The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing system (in press) -
2015: Google Doodles: Evidence of how grapheme's colour, shape, siza and position can interact to make writing multi-dimensional. Writing Systems Research 7(1). https://www.academia.edu/17005114/Google_Doodles_and_multi-dimensional_writing_colour_shape_size_position_
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2011: Grammaphonology: a new theory of English spelling. Skase Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 8(2).
http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL19/pdf_doc/01.pdf