suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- 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?

You'll have to ask him.

But first you need to clean up your use of "phonetic" and "phonemic."
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...