The Taxonomy of Writing Systems: How to Measure How Logographic a System Is
Taxonomies of writing systems since Gelb (1952) have classified systems based on what the written symbols represent: if they represent words or morphemes, they are logographic; if syllables, syllabic; if segments, alphabetic; and so forth. Sproat (2000) and Rogers (2005) broke with t...
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The MIT Press
2021-11-01
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Series: | Computational Linguistics |
Online Access: | https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/47/3/477/102776/The-Taxonomy-of-Writing-Systems-How-to-Measure-How |