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.
| ISBN: | 9780521663403 |
| Publication date: | 21st September 2000 |
| Author: | Richard Sproat |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 236 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Natural Language Processing |
| Genres: |
Computational and corpus linguistics |
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.
A Computational Theory of Writing Systems features in the following genres: Computational and corpus linguistics
A Computational Theory of Writing Systems is available in Hardback
A Computational Theory of Writing Systems was written by Richard Sproat and published by Cambridge University Press
A Computational Theory of Writing Systems has 236 pages
Yes it is part of Studies in Natural Language Processing series
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