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Distribution of complexities in the Vai script

Computation and Language 2009-02-10 v1

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.

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@article{arxiv.0810.0200,
  title  = {Distribution of complexities in the Vai script},
  author = {Andrij Rovenchak and Ján Mačutek and Charles Riley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0200},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages

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