suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- 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, much
> > less published, and never will be (p.c. at Chicago LSA 1997) --
>
> I have read an abstract of Poser's presentation but am confused

Where? His own, or someone's recollection of it?

> 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.

Must've been the same geniuses who screwed up "abugida."

> > I have said this in reviews of D. Gary Miller's little book on "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.

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