Steffen Eger Investigating lexical competition — An Empirical Case Study of the German Spelling Reform of 1996/2004/2006

The German spelling reform of 1996/2004/2006 triggered the introduction of new or thographic variants in the German spelling system. These were the products of dif ferent kinds of modi cations enacted by the reform. They could be a result of a `mu tation'-like change of some of the characters of a word (as, for example, the chang