Harvey Sobelman
American linguist whose 1961 paper set aside sound values and analysed the Byblos texts by sign sequences to find word boundaries and grammatical patterns, the structural approach later recommended by Daniels and revived computationally by GEAS.
The Byblos syllabaryHarvey Sobelman is american linguist; author of the 1961 structural analysis of the Proto-Byblian inscriptions, and appears in the record of Byblos syllabary as american linguist whose 1961 paper set aside sound values and analysed the Byblos texts by sign sequences to find word boundaries and grammatical patterns, the structural approach later recommended by Daniels and revived computationally by GEAS.
One event on the site involves Sobelman: Harvey Sobelman analyses sign sequences for word boundaries without assigning sound values (1961).
One question rest in part on what Sobelman did or said, among them “Do the word boundaries and recurring morphemes found by sequence analysis fit the grammar of any proposed language?”, which stands no evidence yet.
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Mysteries Department. (2026). Harvey Sobelman [Person FIG0DEDJAPE62Q6]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDJAPE62Q6
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