--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> That's easy. In 1992, Bill Poser presented a paper at the LSA
>annual
> meeting in Philadelphia -- which has never even been written down,
>mush
> less published, and never will be (p.c. at Chicago LSA 1997) --

I have read an abstract of Poser's presentation but am confused
about why Rogers is giving it so much importance. I also notice that
in the Unicode encoding proposal for Vai, it is claimed that Vai has
a 'moraic' writing system.

> I have said this in reviews of D. Gary Miller's little book on
>ancient
> "phonological awareness" (in WLL 1) and of Rogers's textbook (to
>appear,
> any year now, in Language).

I look forward to reading your review.

Naturally I am confused about why Cree should have a moraic writing
system when the finals are definitely not morae.

I understand Richard's point about the transfer of the term but it
seems deliberately confusing to me. After all Chinese is never
labeled a straight syllabary so it seems that that term is still
free for Japanese, Cherokee, Vai etc. At the rate we are going no
system will be a syllabary and it will fall into disuse. Hmm.

Suzanne