Altmann / Fengxiang Analyses of Script

Properties of Characters and Writing Systems
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-020710-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 181 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

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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, introduce methods of analysis, study individual writing systems as used for different languages, set up an explanatory model of phenomena connected to script development/evolution, and give a perspective to a general theory of writing systems.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and Students in the areas Linguistics, Psychology, Ph

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altmann, Gabriel

Fengxiang, Fan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;7
3;Quantitative analysis of writing systems: an introduction;11
4;The phoneme-grapheme relationship in Italian;21
5;Graphemic representation of English phonemes;33
6;The phoneme-grapheme relationship in Slovene;69
7;On the distribution of graphemic representations;83
8;The phoneme-grapheme relation in Slovak;87
9;Script ornamentality;99
10;On the decrease of complexity from hieroglyphs to hieratic symbols;113
11;The fractal dimension of script: an experiment;123
12;On graphemic representation of the Oriya phonemes;129
13;On the relation between types and tokens of Japanese morae;149
14;Towards a theory of script;157
15;Backmatter;173

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriel Altmann,Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; Fan Fengxiang, Dalian Maritime University, China.