What linguistic units do Chinese characters represent?

Autor:	J. Marshall Unger
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Writing system Zipf's law Morpheme Computer science Character (computing) Context (language use) Syllable Chinese characters Phonogram Language and Linguistics Linguistics
Zdroj:	Written Language and Literacy. 14:293-302
ISSN:	1570-6001 1387-6732
DOI:	10.1075/wll.14.2.06ung
Popis:	Using the Internet and spreadsheet software, it is now easy to compare word and character counts for modern and literary Chinese based on very large corpora. It turns out that word counts comply with Zipf’s Law whereas character counts do not. This constitutes novel statistical evidence against the persistent claim that Chinese characters are logograms. It thus casts doubt on the practice of categorizing the elements of various writing systems as ‘phonograms’ or ‘logograms’ without regard to context, and a fortiori characterizing entire writing systems as ‘phonographic’ or ‘logographic’. Keywords: Chinese; word; character; morpheme; syllable; phonogram; logogram; Zipf’s Law; corpus
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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