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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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Colección: | Quantitative Linguistics, v. 63.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.