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. 2023 Oct 2:46:e248.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23000705.

A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies

Mihnea Moldoveanu  1
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A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies

Mihnea Moldoveanu. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Can we explain the advantage natural languages enjoy over ideographies in a way that enables us to attempt the design of an ideography that "works"? I deploy an adapted version of Shannon's source- and channel-coding partitioning of a communication system to explain the communicative dynamics and shortfalls of ideographies, and reveal ways in which entrenchable, generalist ideographies could be designed.

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