TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rico,Christophe
AU  - Attucci,Claudia
TI  - Origins of the alphabet: proceedings of the First Polis Institute Interdisciplinary Conference 
SN  - 1443883476
AV  - P211 
U1  - 411 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Alphabet
KW  - History
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Congrès
KW  - Psycholinguistics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Palaeography (history of writing)
KW  - Writing systems, alphabets
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Alphabets & Writing Systems
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Spelling
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
N1  - International conference proceedings; Includes bibliographical references; Parole et écriture; Marcel Sigrist --; The interface of oral and written traditions in ancient Israel: the case of the Abecedaries; Aaron Demsky --; The Assyrian model: les syllabaires d'Ebla (2350 av. J-C) et les abjads du IIe millénaire av. J.-C.; Maria Vittoria Toniette --; Aux sources de l'alphabet: de quelques anciens témoignages en écriture alphabétique; Emile Puech --; The invention of the alphabet: on "lost papyri" and the Egyptian "Alphabet"; Orly Goldwasser --; Ecriture hiéroglyphiquie égyptienne et écriture protosinaïtique: une typologie comparée; Pascal Vernus --; What have we learned about the transition phases to they syllabic and alphabetic systems?; Clotilde Pontecorvo and Franca Rossi --; Les étapes du développement de l'écriture chez l'enfant et l'histoire de l'alphabet; Christophe Rico
N2  - Despite the fact that writing has arisen independently many times in various different regions of the world, including Egypt, Sumer, China, and Mexico, the concept of the alphabet was invented only once, somewhere between Egypt and Phoenicia, with all known alphabets going back to this single source. While it is possible, up to a certain point, for scholars to provide an answer as to how the alphabet came about, it is much more difficult to understand the cause of its origin: why did it come about? In February 2013 Polis - the Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities invited some of the
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