Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- A note on fonts
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- 1 What is writing?
- 2 The basic options: meaning and sound
- 3 Signs of words
- 4 Signs of syllables
- 5 Signs of segments
- 6 Consonants and vowels
- 7 Vowel incorporation
- 8 Analysis and interpretation
- 9 Mixed systems
- 10 History of writing
- 11 Psycholinguistics of writing
- 12 Sociolinguistics of writing
- Appendix: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 1
- Bibliography
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
10 - History of writing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- A note on fonts
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- 1 What is writing?
- 2 The basic options: meaning and sound
- 3 Signs of words
- 4 Signs of syllables
- 5 Signs of segments
- 6 Consonants and vowels
- 7 Vowel incorporation
- 8 Analysis and interpretation
- 9 Mixed systems
- 10 History of writing
- 11 Psycholinguistics of writing
- 12 Sociolinguistics of writing
- Appendix: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 1
- Bibliography
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
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- Writing SystemsAn Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis, pp. 190 - 209Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002