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Publication details [#29770]

Sampson, Geoffrey. 1994. Chinese script and the diversity of writing systems. Linguistics 32 (1) : 117–132.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

phonetically consistent forms | script | writing

Language as a subject

Chinese, Modern

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper challenges DeFrancis (1989)' interpretation of the Chinese script as an essentially phonographic system, arguing that this claim confuses diachrony with synchrony.