TY - BOOK ID - 77927348 TI - Analyses of Script AU - Altmann, Gabriel AU - Bernhard, Gerald AU - Best, Karl-Heinz AU - Fengxiang, Fan AU - Hegenbarth-Reichardt, Ina AU - Kelih, Emmerich AU - Köhler, Reinhard AU - Macutek, Ján AU - Mohanty, Panchanan AU - Tamaoka, Katsuo AU - Nemcová, Emília PY - 2008 SN - 128219674X 9786612196744 3110207109 9783110207101 9781282196742 6612196742 9783110196412 3110196417 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Writing KW - Mathematical linguistics. KW - Algebraic linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Linguistics KW - Linguistics, Mathematical KW - Applied linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Computational linguistics KW - Chirography KW - Handwriting KW - Ciphers KW - Penmanship KW - Mathematical models. KW - Statistical methods KW - Mathematical models KW - Mathematical linguistics KW - corpus linguistics. KW - writing systems. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77927348 AB - 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. ER -