Richard Sproat

orcid.org/0000-0002-9040-5196

List of John Benjamins publications for which Richard Sproat plays a role.

Book series

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Journal

Written Language & Literacy (WL&L)

General Editor: Dorit Ravid

ISSN 1387-6732 | E-ISSN 1570-6001

Articles (8) | Order by:

Blevins, Juliette and Richard Sproat 2021 Statistical evidence for the Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian hypothesis: A word-list approach integrating phonotactics Diachronica 38:4, pp. 506–564 | Article

Based on a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, and regular sound correspondences between this Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European as standardly reconstructed, Blevins (2018) argues that Proto-Basque and Proto-Indo-European have a common ancestor that pre-dates the two proto-languages. Part of… read more

Sproat, Richard 2018 Peter T. Daniels, 2018, An Exploration of Writing Written Language & Literacy 21:2, pp. 269–278 | Review

Sproat, Richard 2017 A computational model of the discovery of writing Written Language & Literacy 20:2, pp. 194–226 | Article

This paper reports on a computational simulation of the evolution of early writing systems from pre-linguistic symbol systems, something for which there is poor evidence in the archaeological record. The simulation starts with a completely concept-based set of symbols, and then spreads those… read more

Sproat, Richard 2013 A note on Unger’s “What linguistic units do Chinese characters represent?” Written Language & Literacy 16:1, pp. 107–111 | Article

Unger (2011) observes that Chinese characters do not observe a Zipfian distribution, and he uses this fact as evidence that Chinese characters do not represent words. He then goes on to suggest that they do not represent morphemes either. In this note I argue that Unger’s observation is neither… read more

Sproat, Richard 2009 Review of Zhao & Baldauf (2008): Planning Chinese characters: Reaction, evolution or revolution The Role of Phonology in Reading, Penke, Martina (ed.), pp. 229–234 | Review

Wali, Aamir, Richard Sproat, Prakash Padakannaya and Bhuvaneshwari B. 2009 Model for phonemic awareness in readers of Indian script Writing Systems and Linguistic Structure, Lee, Sang-Oak (ed.), pp. 161–169 | Article

Previous studies have shown that segmental awareness tasks are usually influenced by the script. In this paper, we extend these studies further to propose a more concrete, script-centric metric for evaluating phonemic awareness in readers of Indian scripts. We propose that the ease or difficulty… read more

Sproat, Richard 2006 Brahmi-derived scripts, script layout, and segmental awareness Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness, Neef, Martin and Guido Nottbusch (eds.), pp. 45–66 | Article

In earlier work (Sproat 2000), I characterized the layout of symbols in a script in terms of a calculus involving two dimensional catenation operators: I claimed that leftwards, rightwards, upwards, downwards and surrounding catenation are sufficient to describe the layout of any script. In the… read more