A note on Unger's "What linguistic units do Chinese characters represent?"

被引：1

作者：

Sproat, Richard ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Google Inc, 76 Ninth Ave,4th Floor, New York, NY 10011 USA

来源：

WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY | 2013年 / 16卷 / 01期

关键词：

Chinese; word; character; morpheme; syllable; phonogram; logogram; Zipf's Law; corpus;

D O I：

10.1075/wll.16.1.05spr

中图分类号：

H [语言、文字];

学科分类号：

05 ;

摘要：

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 new, nor is it necessary; and that, at least with respect to his claim about morphemes, it does not support the conclusion he wishes to make.

引用

页码：107 / 111

页数：5