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Among further generally oriented contributions in the volume under review, there is that by H. Giinter, who points out that it is inappropriate to assume that phonologi-cal recoding necessarily occurs during reading, or even that it always precedes the access to the mental lexicon. B.L. Derwing and M.L. Dow examine spelling conven-tions as a possible factor in speakers ’ judgments on such questions as the character of English diphthongs (or single phonemes) in pain or sole, the voiceless/voiced opposition (neutralized after syllable-initial s in stops), and the consonant (or cluster) written ng; they conclude that orthography can be a very important influence on such phonological judgments, depending on the type of task. The closing paper by H. Penzl is the only one devoted to diachrony, namely to the development of writing in Old Germanic languages and in the different stages of the history of German, paying also attention to orthography as the main evidence for historical phonology. More specific topics are discussed in the remaining four papers, where B. Jacobsen describes experiments with the new orthography of Greenlandic (which is phonemitally based, although not fully consistent e.g. in the spelling of vowels); M. Durie