A linguist's comment on 'Pictish symbols revealed as a written language through application of Shannon entropy'

Arnaud Fournet, 2010. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 467(2126), 305-308.

Argues that linearising the carvings and the features of archaic writing systems may bias the entropy test, that the writing and drawing distinction is less clear-cut than assumed, and that the conclusion remains pending.

Pictish symbol stonesArticledoi: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0189Checked against the original0

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A published critique of the 2010 claim.

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Linearising carvings into strings and archaic-script features may bias such tests.

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The Pictish symbol stones

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Fournet, A. (2010). A linguist's comment on 'Pictish symbols revealed as a written language through application of Shannon entropy'. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 467(2126), 305-308. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2010.0189

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Fournet, Arnaud. “A linguist's comment on 'Pictish symbols revealed as a written language through application of Shannon entropy'.” Proceedings of the Royal Society A 467(2126), 305-308 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2010.0189.