Analyses of Script : : Properties of Characters and Writing Systems / / ed. by Gabriel Altmann, Fan Fengxiang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Altmann, Gabriel,; Bernhard, Gerald,; Best, Karl-Heinz,; Fengxiang, Fan,; Hegenbarth-Reichardt, Ina,; Kelih, Emmerich,; Köhler, Reinhard,; Mačutek, Ján,; Mohanty, Panchanan,; Nemcová, Emília,; Tamaoka, Katsuo,
• HerausgeberIn: Altmann, Gabriel,; Fengxiang, Fan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Quantitative Linguistics [QL] , 63
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (173 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
• Other title: 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 --; 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 --; On the relation between types and tokens of --; Japanese morae --; IV. Towards a theory --; Towards a theory of script --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110207101; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110212129; 9783110212136; 9783110209457
• ISSN: 0179-3616
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110207101
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Gabriel Altmann, Fan Fengxiang.

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.