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The earliest printed books in Lepcha (1998)
Journal Article
Sprigg, R. K. (1998). The earliest printed books in Lepcha. Aachuley: A Quarterly Lepcha Bilingual News Magazine, 2(1), 14-19

Alphabet or syllabary in South East Asia: 'new wine into old bottles (1985)
Book Chapter
Sprigg, R. K. (1985). Alphabet or syllabary in South East Asia: 'new wine into old bottles. In G. Thurgood, J. A. Matisoff, & D. Bradley (Eds.), Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area: the state of the art. Papers presented to Paul K. Benedict for his 71st birthday (105-115). Pacific Linguistics

The lexical item as a phonetic entity (1974)
Journal Article
Sprigg, R. K. (1974). The lexical item as a phonetic entity. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 4(1), 20-30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002510030000092X

‘“… there is more near-ambiguity in language than it is always convenient to admit”; and in studying stress and juncture it would be especially valuable, in order to avoid too great a reliance either on introspection or on artificially contrived conf... Read More about The lexical item as a phonetic entity.

The Phonology of the grammatical constituents of verbal-phrase words in spoken Tibetan (Lhasa Dialect) (1968)
Thesis
Sprigg, R. K. The Phonology of the grammatical constituents of verbal-phrase words in spoken Tibetan (Lhasa Dialect). (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

The thesis is a study of certain phonetic, phonological, and grammatical aspects of the Lhasa dialect of Tibetan as spoken by Rinzin Wangpo. For this purpose such phonetic criteria as there are for distinguishing Words are first stated; atter which,... Read More about The Phonology of the grammatical constituents of verbal-phrase words in spoken Tibetan (Lhasa Dialect).

Limbu books in the Kiranti Script (1959)
Book Chapter
Sprigg, R. K. (1959). Limbu books in the Kiranti Script. In H. Franke (Ed.), Akten des vierundzwanzigsten Internationalen Orientalisten-Kongresses München 28. August bis 4. September 1957 (590-592). Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag

Junction in spoken Burmese (1957)
Book Chapter
Sprigg, R. K. (1957). Junction in spoken Burmese. In Studies in linguistic analysis (104-138). Blackwell