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Ancient scripts and phonological knowledge [[electronic resource] /] / D. Gary Miller



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Autore: Miller D. Gary Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ancient scripts and phonological knowledge [[electronic resource] /] / D. Gary Miller Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1994
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (155 p.)
Disciplina: 414
Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology
Inscriptions, Linear B
Cypriot syllabary
Alphabet
Language awareness
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-135) and index.
Nota di contenuto: ANCIENT SCRIPTS AND PHONOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 0. PREFACE; 1. THEORETICAL PREREQUISITES; 2. THE LINEAR B SYLLABARY; 3. THE CYPRIAN SYLLABARY; 4. THE GREEK ALPHABET; 5. THE RUNIC ALPHABET; 6. LITERACY AND LINGUISTICKNOWLEDGE; 7. IMPLICATIONS: AN IDEAL SCRIPT?; REFERENCES; GENERAL INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic knowledge is 'real' or accessible, whence the ubiquity of syllabaries. Miller disputes this by showing that such tests do not distinguish relevant types of knowledge, and that linguistic analysis of the ordering and writing conventions of early Western scripts corroborates the evidence from language acq
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ISBN: 1-283-31285-9
9786613312853
90-272-7671-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781302003321
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Serie: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series IV, . -Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 116.