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This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that only syllabic knowledge is 'real' or accessible, whence the ubiquity of syllabaries. Miller disputes this by showing that such tests do not distinguish relevant types of knowledge, and that linguistic analysis of the ordering and writing conventions of early Western scripts corroborates the evidence from language acq

Alphabet. --- Cypriot syllabary. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Inscriptions, Linear B. --- Language awareness. --- Phonology. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology. --- Alphabet --- Cypriot syllabary --- Inscriptions, Linear B --- Language awareness --- Cypriote (Dialecte ancien) --- Phonologie --- Inscriptions linéaires B --- Conscience linguistique --- Phonology --- Syllabaires --- Linguistic awareness --- Metalinguistic knowledge --- Awareness --- Psycholinguistics --- Linear B inscriptions --- Minoan writing --- Greek language --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Inscriptions, Hieroglyphic --- Cypriote syllabary --- Letters of the alphabet --- Latin alphabet --- Roman alphabet --- Hieroglyphics --- Transliteration --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology