Corpora of Non-Linguistic Symbol Systems

Katherine Wu, Jennifer Solman, Ruth Linehan et al., 2012.

Vinča signsArticleCopy of The inscribed pottery, whorls and figurines of Vinča-Belo Brdodoi: 10.3765/exabs.v0i0.5760

What it's used for here

Describes the XML corpora of eight non-linguistic symbol systems built to test entropy-based "is it writing" claims, including a Vinča corpus encoded from Winn 1981: 591 texts, 804 sign tokens, 185 sign types, mean text length 1.4. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 3. Open access.

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The Vinča corpus: transcription of Winn's catalogue as XML (Vinca.xml)

CPY

In the open Winn-based corpus 495 of 591 inscriptions are a single sign and the mean length is 1.4, leaving almost no…

Evidence

EVD

Most signs sit alone on vessel bases or bodies in domestic contexts, where potters' and owners' marks are found in…

Evidence

EVD

Wu, Solman, Linehan and Sproat publish an XML corpus of the Vinča signs from Winn's catalogue

EVT

The Vinča signs

The mystery article

MYS

Do the Vinča signs record language, a conventional notation, or neither?

Question

QST

Cite it

Katherine Wu, Jennifer Solman, Ruth Linehan, & Richard Sproat (2012). Corpora of Non-Linguistic Symbol Systems. https://doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.576

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et al.. “Corpora of Non-Linguistic Symbol Systems.” 2012. https://doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.576.