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Melville Bell, teacher of elocution at the University of Edinburgh, acquired a worldwide reputation not only as an expert on correct pronunciation but also as the inventor of "Visible Speech" [Bel67], a written code providing a universal alphabet-some may say an abstract notation-describing the precise positions and the respective actions of the tongue, the throat, and the lips while speaking (see Figure 1.1 on the following page).
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relative object identifier, character abstract syntax, unaligned variant, extension marker, abstract syntax viewpoint, information object set, other abstract syntax notations, value range constraint, value set field, information object class, tagging mode, extensible constraint, presentation context identifier, context switching types, field name denotes, tag octets, encoding compatibility, subtype constraints, registration tree, exception marker, object set field, standardized encoding rules, specific encoding rules, alphabet constraint, last field name
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Reference Manual, User's Guide, Defined Value, Named Type, Communication Between Heterogeneous Systems, Defined Object Class, Selection Type, Inner Type Constraints, Component Types, Contents Constraint, Multiple Type Constraints, Apollo Computer, France Télécom, Georges Perec, John Larmouth, Objective Carol, Type With Constraint, Encoding of All Types, Named Value, The Predefined, Visible Speech, Formal Languages, John Sturrock, National Body, Quadruple Tuple
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