Evidence from the history of alphabetic writing: Phonemic segmentation as ephiphenomenon

Faber, Alice

doi:10.1075/tsl.21.11fab

In:The Linguistics of Literacy
Edited by Pamela A. Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan
[Typological Studies in Language 21] 1992
► pp. 111–134

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Phonemic segmentation as ephiphenomenon

Evidence from the history of alphabetic writing

Alice Faber

Published online: 1 July 1992

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.21.11fab

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