Analyses of script : properties of characters and writing systems / edited by Gabriel Altmann, Fan Fengxiang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Altmann, Gabriel.

Fan, Fengxiang, 1950-

Series:

Quantitative linguistics ; v. 63.

Quantitative linguistics, 0179-3616 ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Writing--Mathematical models.

Writing.

Mathematical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

I. Introduction

Quantitative analysis of writing systems: an introduction

II. The phoneme-grapheme relation

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

III. Special problems

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

IV. Towards a theory

Towards a theory of script

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612196744

9781282196742

128219674X

9783110207101

3110207109

OCLC:

476196916