Ilpo Väätäinen

The Catalogue Is the Instrument: how the choice of sign inventory moves the statistics of an undeciphered script

Statistical arguments about undeciphered scripts — whether a sign system "behaves like language" — are computed on a transliteration, and a transliteration presupposes a catalogue of signs. For rongorongo the published catalogues disagree by an order of magnitude (about 50 to abo...

The Catalogue Is the Instrument: how the choice of sign inventory moves the statistics of an undeciphered script

Statistical arguments about undeciphered scripts — whether a sign system "behaves like language" — are computed on a transliteration, and a transliteration presupposes a catalogue of signs. For rongorongo the published catalogues disagree by an order of magnitude (about 50 to abo...

The Catalogue Is the Instrument: how the choice of sign inventory moves the statistics of an undeciphered script

Statistical arguments about undeciphered scripts — whether a sign system "behaves like language" — are computed on a transliteration, and a transliteration presupposes a catalogue of signs. For rongorongo the published catalogues disagree by an order of magnitude (about 50 to abo...

The Catalogue Is the Instrument: how the choice of sign inventory moves the statistics of an undeciphered script

Statistical arguments about undeciphered scripts — whether a sign system "behaves like language" — are computed on a transliteration, and a transliteration presupposes a catalogue of signs. For rongorongo the published catalogues disagree by an order of magnitude (about 50 to abo...

The Catalogue Is the Instrument: how the choice of sign inventory moves the statistics of an undeciphered script

Statistical arguments about undeciphered scripts — whether a sign system "behaves like language" — are computed on a transliteration, and a transliteration presupposes a catalogue of signs. For rongorongo the published catalogues disagree by an order of magnitude (about 50 to abo...