Alice Faber

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alice Faber plays a role.

Faber, Alice and Catherine T. Best 1994 The Perceptual Infrastructure of Early Phonological DevelopmentThe Reality of Linguistic Rules, Lima, Susan D., Roberta Corrigan and Gregory Iverson, pp. 261–280 | Article
Faber, Alice 1992 Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound changeExplanation in Historical Linguistics, Davis, Garry W. and Gregory Iverson (eds.), pp. 59–76 | Article
Faber, Alice 1992 Phonemic segmentation as ephiphenomenon: Evidence from the history of alphabetic writingThe Linguistics of Literacy, Downing, Pamela A., Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 111–134 | Article
Faber, Alice 1988 Indefinite Pronouns in Early SemiticFucus: A Semitic/Afrasian Gathering in Remembrance of Albert Ehrman, Arbeitman, Yoël L. (ed.), pp. 221–238 | Article
Faber, Alice 1986 On The Actuation of Sound Change: A Semitic Case StudyDiachronica 3:2, pp. 163–184 | Article
SUMMARY Careful examination of the Semitic languages provides a substantial amount of evidence for an association of hushing sibilants with a class of segments having at its core /r/ and /m/. This association is manifested in a statistically elevated number of Proto-Semitic roots in which *r and… read more