Neuroscientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. The findings provide for the first time a neural basis for the fundamental ...

This paper addresses the problem of the syllabic consonants in the selected Slavic and Celtic languages. We shall consider this issue through the optic of Government Phonology (henceforth GP), as ...

Writing as a system of signs : Ways of communicating ideas ; Definition of writing ; Sources of information ; Study of writing -- Forerunners of writing : Primitive drawings ; ...