A computational theory of writing systems

TL;DR: This study reviews key issues in Chinese grammar analysis over the past five decades, discussing typological perspectives on wordhood, parts of speech, syntactic pivots, voice, word order, and creole and sign language influences on Chinese grammar processing.

TL;DR: A range of accounts have been offered as to what the real meaning of these items is: starting from a recrea- tional and/or a gambling game, to a divination scheme, to amulets, to an appli- cation for determining the length and order of funerary rites, ending up with an 'ideographic', or even a 'pre-alphabetic' system as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: 1. Gesture, feature, autosegment 2. Phonetics in phonology 3. Defining prosody 4. Modulations 5. On duality of patterning 6.Phonological events

TL;DR: Of all the design features discussed by Hockett, DoP seems to have engendered the most confusion, but many complications arise when the authors look more closely, and the goal of this short paper is to document the complications and perhaps alleviate some of the confusion.

TL;DR: Since this classic work in phonology was published in 1968, there has been no other book that gives as broad a view of the subject, combining generally applicable theoretical contributions with analysis of the details of a single language.

TL;DR: The proposed measure, the association ratio, estimates word association norms directly from computer readable corpora, making it possible to estimate norms for tens of thousands of words.

TL;DR: A parallel distributed processing model of visual word recognition and pronunciation is described, which consists of sets of orthographic and phonological units and an interlevel of hidden units and which early in the learning phase corresponds to that of children acquiring word recognition skills.