--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels"

> The vowel-letter following the consonant seems to be

important to Bill

> Bright's "alphasyllabary," since he claims that hPags pa

(where

> vowel-letters only follow their consonants) isn't an

alphasyllabary, but

> of course it is an abugida.

From a psycholinguistic viewpoint, if visual sequence matches
phonemic sequence then visual and phonemic segments can
be matched up by the user and the script is accessible to the
user as an alphabet.

If visual sequence does not match phonetic sequence then the
user matches up the visual syllables with the phonemic
syllables and uses the script as a syllabary.

Would Bill Bright concur with this?

Suzanne McCarthy