1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911080990303321

Autore

Griffith Ernest S

Titolo

Civilian Conservation Corps : letter from the director of the Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress transmitting to Hon. Elbert D. Thomas, of Utah, chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, a monograph designed to furnish to the Congress a basis for legislative action with reference to the future of the Civilian Conservation Corps

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Government Printing Office, 1942

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911092269603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008

ISBN

9786612196744

9781282196742

128219674X

9783110207101

3110207109

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Collana

Quantitative linguistics, , 0179-3616 ; ; 63

Altri autori (Persone)

AltmannGabriel

FanFengxiang <1950->

Disciplina

411

Soggetti

Writing - Mathematical models

Mathematical linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.



Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.