# Katherine Wu 2012: Corpora of Non-Linguistic Symbol Systems

> Katherine Wu, Jennifer Solman, Ruth Linehan et al., 2012. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Describes the XML corpora of eight non-linguistic…

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# Corpora of Non-Linguistic Symbol Systems

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

**Vinča signs** ArticleCopy of **[The inscribed pottery, whorls and figurines of Vinča-Belo Brdo](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/artifacts/ART0DEDTPFPT74T/the-inscribed-pottery-whorls-and-figurines-of-vinca-belo)** doi: **[10.3765/exabs.v0i0.576](https://doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.576)** 0

## 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.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[The Vinča corpus: transcription of Winn's catalogue as XML (Vinca.xml)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/copies/CPY0DEDV2ABCQFM/the-vinca-corpus-transcription-of-winns-catalogue-as-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…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/evidence/EVD0DEE9APGJGWX/in-the-open-winn-based-corpus-495-of-591-inscriptions-are-a)

Evidence

EVD

[Most signs sit alone on vessel bases or bodies in domestic contexts, where potters' and owners' marks are found in…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/evidence/EVD0DEE9CJ9X51M/most-signs-sit-alone-on-vessel-bases-or-bodies-in-domestic)

Evidence

EVD

[Wu, Solman, Linehan and Sproat publish an XML corpus of the Vinča signs from Winn's catalogue](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/events/EVT0DEDT3FMRJMQ/wu-solman-linehan-and-sproat-publish-an-xml-corpus-of-the)

EVT

[The Vinča signs](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs)

The mystery article

MYS

[Do the Vinča signs record language, a conventional notation, or neither?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/questions/QST0DEDW2Y5RPT1/do-the-vinca-signs-record-language-a-conventional-notation)

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QST

## Cite it

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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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