A COMPUTATIONAL THEORY OF WRITING SYSTEMS

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A formal computational theory of writing systems relating to psycholinguistic results.Drawing on case studies around the world this book develops a formal computational theory of writing systems and relates it to psycholinguistic results. Sprout then proposes a taxonomy of writing systems. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in theoretical and computational linguistics psycholinguistics and speech technology.Drawing on case studies around the world this book develops a formal computational theory of writing systems and relates it to psycholinguistic results. Sprout then proposes a taxonomy of writing systems. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in theoretical and computational linguistics psycholinguistics and speech technology.This book develops a formal computational theory of writing systems. It offers specific proposals about the linguistic objects that are represented by orthographic elements: what levels of linguistic representation are involved and how they may differ across writing systems: and what formal constraints hold of the mapping relation between linguistic and orthographic elements. Based on the insights gained Sproat then proposes a taxonomy of writing systems. The treatment of theoretical linguistic issues and their computational implementation is complemented with discussion of empirical psycholinguistic work on reading and its relevance for the computational model developed here. Throughout the model is illustrated with a number of detailed case studies of writing systems around the world. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in a variety of fields including theoretical and computational linguistics the psycholinguistics of reading and writing and speech technology.List of figures: List of tables: Preface: 1. Reading devices: 2. Regularity: 3. ORL depth and consistency: 4. Linguistic elements: 5. Psycholinguistic evidence: 6. Further Issues: Bibliography: Index....this is easily the most original piece of writing in linguistics that I have read in the last ten years. Gerald Penn Written Language & Literacy

Data Publikacji: 2006-12-14
Wymiary: 228 mm 152 mm 15 mm 380 gr