Possible Components of Parallel Human Communications Systems

Abstract

Alphanumeric characters and phonemes can be viewed as information codes used by human communication systems. If such communication systems were designed to be effective, then we should expect to find certain characteristics which should be manifested in the nature of the physical representations of the information codes and in the perception of these codes. These characteristics are discussed in terms of their importance to communication systems in general and their manifestations in human audible and visible language. When viewed from the perspective of such communication systems, we should expect to find many parallels in the perception of alphanumeric characters and phonemes. This paper examines some of these parallels, drawing upon our knowledge of human perception.