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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Disciplina: 411
• Soggetto topico: Writing - Mathematical models; Mathematical linguistics
• Altri autori: AltmannGabriel FanFengxiang <1950->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Analyses of script
• ISBN: 1-282-19674-X; 9786612196744; 3-11-020710-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823790803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Quantitative linguistics ; ; v. 63.