Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Behav Brain Sci. 2023 Oct 2;46:e248. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23000705.
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.
我们能否以一种能够让我们尝试设计一种“可行”的表意文字的方式来解释自然语言相对于表意文字的优势？我采用香农对通信系统的信源和信道编码划分的改编版本来解释表意文字的交际动态和不足之处，并揭示可设计的根深蒂固的、通用的表意文字的方法。
