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UNINA9911092269603321 |
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Titolo |
Analyses of script : properties of characters and writing systems / / edited by Gabriel Altmann, Fan Fengxiang |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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9786612196744 |
9781282196742 |
128219674X |
9783110207101 |
3110207109 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Collana |
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Quantitative linguistics, , 0179-3616 ; ; 63 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AltmannGabriel |
FanFengxiang <1950-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Writing - Mathematical models |
Mathematical linguistics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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