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Analyses of Script : Properties of Characters and Writing Systems.

This volume presents 12 papers on a new approach to the analysis of writing systems. For the first time, quantitative methods are introduced into this area of research in a systematic way. The individual contributions give an overview about quantitative properties of symbols and of writing systems,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Altmann, Gabriel
Otros Autores: Fengxiang, Fan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Quantitative Linguistics, v. 63.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter; Contents; Quantitative analysis of writing systems: an introduction; The phoneme-grapheme relationship in Italian; Graphemic representation of English phonemes; The phoneme-grapheme relationship in Slovene; On the distribution of graphemic representations; The phoneme-grapheme relation in Slovak; Script ornamentality; On the decrease of complexity from hieroglyphs to hieratic symbols; The fractal dimension of script: an experiment; On graphemic representation of the Oriya phonemes; On the relation between types and tokens of Japanese morae; Towards a theory of script; Backmatter.