Writing Systems and Linguistic Structure
Edited by Sang-Oak Lee
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 12:2 (2009) iv, 134 pp.
Sang-Oak Lee
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sang-Oak Lee is involved.
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2014 Proverbial homogeneity: A cross-linguistic examination of Korean and Indonesian: With reference to English and Chinese proverbs Korean Linguistics 16:1, pp. 63–81 | Article
This study explores the use of keywords in proverbs in Korean, English, Chinese, and Indonesian. The study applies the traditional corpus linguistic tools of frequency and ranking to the keywords found in proverbs in an attempt to characterize the proverbs of these languages. The frequency data… read more
2009 The Korean alphabet: An optimal featural system with graphical ingenuity Writing Systems and Linguistic Structure, Lee, Sang-Oak (ed.), pp. 202–212 | Article
In the study of writing systems, there is an ongoing debate what qualifies an alphabet as featural. De Francis (1989) claims that Alexander Melville Bell’s Visible Speech (VS) is featural because Bell idealized the consistency of his VS’s C-shaped letters, which resemble the general shape of the… read more
2009 Writing systems and linguistic structure Writing Systems and Linguistic Structure, Lee, Sang-Oak (ed.), pp. 159–160 | Article
2002 On the Functional Load of Phonetic and Phonological Constraints in Three Dimensions Korean Linguistics 11, pp. 133–149 | Article