...The central notion of segmentation of the speech chain is investigated in some detail. Examples that do not fit easily with the process of cross-parametric slicing are considered. The development of the ability to segment in humans is discussed and its relationship to reading an alphabetic script...

... Bellour’s approach: segmentation; “the unattainable text” (also referred to as “the undiscoverable text” or “le texte introuvable”); le blocage symbolique (also referred to as “the symbolic blockage”);“the textual volume”; Hitchcock and psychoanalysis; and enunciation...

... to the issues of biuniqueness and monosystemicity, segmentation, and phonetic implementation and abstractness; a final chapter deals with panlectal grammars....