On the distribution of graphemic representations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. I. Introduction
4. Quantitative analysis of writing systems: an introduction 3
5. II. The phoneme-grapheme relation
6. The phoneme-grapheme relationship in Italian 13
7. Graphemic representation of English phonemes 25
8. The phoneme-grapheme relationship in Slovene 61
9. On the distribution of graphemic representations 75
10. The phoneme-grapheme relation in Slovak 79
11. III. Special problems
12. Script ornamentality 91
13. On the decrease of complexity from hieroglyphs to hieratic symbols 105
14. The fractal dimension of script: an experiment 115
15. On graphemic representation of the Oriya phonemes 121
16. On the relation between types and tokens of Japanese morae 141
17. IV. Towards a theory
18. Towards a theory of script 149
19. Backmatter 165