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1 online resource (viii, 173 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Quantitative linguistics ; 63
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Quantitative linguistics ; v. 63.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter; Contents; Quantitative analysis of writing systems: an introduction; 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; 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; Towards a theory of script; Backmatter. |
| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Writing -- Mathematical models.
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Writing. |
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Mathematical models. |
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Mathematical linguistics.
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Mathematical linguistics. |
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Electronic books.
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Computer network resources.
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| Added Author |
Altmann, Gabriel.
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Fan, Fengxiang, 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Analyses of script. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 (DLC) 2008008072 |
| ISBN |
9783110207101 (electronic book) |
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3110207109 (electronic book) |
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128219674X |
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9781282196742 |
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9783110196412 |
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3110196417 |
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