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Distribution of complexities in the Vai script
Glottometrics (2009)
  • Andrij Rovenchak, Lviv State Ivan Franko University
  • Ján Mačutek, Comenius University
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Abstract
In the paper, we analyze the distribution of complexities in the Vai script, an indigenous syllabic writing system from Liberia. It is found that the uniformity hypothesis for complexities fails for this script. The models using Poisson distribution for the number of components and hyper-Poisson distribution for connections provide good fits in the case of the Vai script.
Keywords
  • Vai,
  • Poisson distribution,
  • Liberia,
  • Computational linguistics
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring 2009
Citation Information
Andrij Rovenchak and Ján Mačutek. "Distribution of complexities in the Vai script" Glottometrics Vol. 18 (2009) p. 1 - 12 ISSN: 1617-8351
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zenodotus/1/