A Computational Theory of Writing Systems |
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| Author:
| Sproat, Richard William |
| Contribution by:
| Bird, Steven
Boguraev, Branimir
Hindle, Don
Kay, Martin
McDonald, David
Uszkoreit, Hans
Wilks, Yorick |
| Series title: | Studies in Natural Language Processing Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-66340-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2000 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $97.99 |
Book Description:
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This innovative book develops a formal computational theory of writing systems and relates it to psycholingui stic results. Drawing on case studies of writing systems around the world, it offers specific proposals about the linguistic objects that are represented by orthographic elements and the formal constraints that hold of the mapping relation between them. Based on the insights gained, it posits a new taxonomy of writing systems. The book will be of interest to students and...
More DescriptionThis innovative book develops a formal computational theory of writing systems and relates it to psycholingui stic results. Drawing on case studies of writing systems around the world, it offers specific proposals about the linguistic objects that are represented by orthographic elements and the formal constraints that hold of the mapping relation between them. Based on the insights gained, it posits a new taxonomy of writing systems. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in theoretical and computational linguistics, the psycholinguistics of reading and writing, and speech technology.