Analyses of Script (eBook)

Properties of Characters and Writing Systems

Gabriel Altmann, Fan Fengxiang (Herausgeber)

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2008
181 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-020710-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2008
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Quantitative Linguistics [QL]
• Reihe/Serie: Quantitative Linguistics [QL]
• Zusatzinfo: Num. figs. and tabs.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Corpus Linguistics • Korpuslinguistik • Schriftsysteme • Writing Systems • writing systems; corpus linguistics
• ISBN-10: 3-11-020710-9 / 3110207109
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-020710-1 / 9783110207101