J Marshall Unger
Biographic Data
| ID | 749994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Marshall Unger |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Marshall |
| FAMILY NAME | Unger |
| SIGNATURE | UNGER J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9839-441X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Zipf and morphemes
Language Policy in Japan
Reviewed by: Language Policy in Japan: The Challenge of Change J. Marshall Unger (bio) Language Policy in Japan: The Challenge of Change. By Nanette Gottlieb. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012. xiv, 207 pages. £60.00, cloth; $79.00, E-book. In 2000, Nanette Gottlieb wrote that Japanese word-processing (JWP) technology had “put paid to any remaining hopes of romanisation by solving the hitherto stubborn input-output problem”; romanizatio…
What linguistic units do Chinese characters represent
Using the Internet and spreadsheet software, it is now easy to compare word and character counts for modern and literary Chinese based on very large corpora. It turns out that word counts comply with Zipf’s Law whereas character counts do not. This constitutes novel statistical evidence against the persistent claim that Chinese characters are logograms. It thus casts doubt on the practice of categorizing the elements of various writing systems as…
The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages
Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-Korean-Japanese (pKJ), some scholars still reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a new way, interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence, much of which has come to light only in recent years. The weaknesses of the reconstruction, according to J. Marshall Unger, are due to the early date at which pKJ split apart a…
The Peopling of East Asia
Preview this article: The Peopling of East Asia: Putting together archaeology, linguistics and genetics. Edited by Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench, & Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/dia.24.1.14ung-1.gif
Internal reconstruction in Hungarian
An internal reconstruction of Hungarian based mostly on the morphophonemic alternations of the modern language yields dramatically different results from those obtained from a purely synchronic approach to the same data. This article presents such a reconstruction and argues that the striking contrast between the forms and processes it entails and those favored by a synchronic analysis demonstrates the need to give performance ( parole ) at least…
Layers of Words and Volcanic Ash in Japan and Korea
Functional digraphia in Japan as revealed in consumer product preferences
Article Functional digraphia in Japan as revealed in consumer product preferences was published on August 10, 2001 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2001, issue 150)
Reconciling Comparative and Internal Reconstruction
Some Korean-Japanese comparisons involving Japanese coronals complicate the internal reconstruction of pre-Old Japanese. Post-OJ verb forms that end uniformly in, for example, ki have distinct OJ final syllables ( ki ≠ kwi ) according to the form or paradigm of the verb. This is not true for OJ syllables like ti , but scholars have assumed that pre-OJ * ti ≠ * twi , etc., were distributed in corresponding verb forms in the same way as OJ ki ≠ kwi…
Kanji Politics
Asia's Orthographic Dilemma
The Symbolic Species
Japan's Name Culture
Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan
Japanese writing intermingles three different sets of characters, making it difficult to adapt to new technology. Unger looks at why the Japanese have not reformed their orthography and specifically the efforts at script reform that took place after the Second World War, and how and why that movement was defeated
"Rejoinder to Geoffrey Sampson, "Chinese script and the diversity of writing systems
L'A. examine de maniere critique les hypotheses de G. Sampson (1994) a propos du systeme d'ecriture chinois. La question est de savoir quels sont les criteres qui definissent un systeme d'ecriture comme etant partiel ou complet. L'A. propose deux criteres: a) la presence ou l'absence d'un element phonographique dans le systeme; b) le degre de fonctionnalite de ce systeme, c'est-a-dire s'il est possible d'apprendre ce systeme pour des raisons prat…
A History of Writing in Japan
Language and the Modern State
Language and modernization - the Japanese experience pre-modern styles early stirrings - education and the press language and politics the role of literature the final stages the opposition the standardization debate the problem of orthography
The Very Idea. The Notion of Ideogram in China and Japan
Chinese Final Stops in Japanese
The Fifth Generation Fallacy
For several years much attention has been focused on Japan's highly publicized Fifth Generation Project, a research programme aimed at the development of 'intelligent' computers that can think like human beings. It has been claimed that such machines are the technology of the future, and whoever gets them first will emerge as the new leader of the world economy. In this book J. Marshall Unger shows that the West has completely misunderstood Japan…
Law Reform (Personal Injuries) Act, 1948
Limitation Act, 1939
The Very Idea. The Notion of Ideogram in China and Japan
Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan
Japanese writing intermingles three different sets of characters, making it difficult to adapt to new technology. Unger looks at why the Japanese have not reformed their orthography and specifically the efforts at script reform that took place after the Second World War, and how and why that movement was defeated
Asia's Orthographic Dilemma
Functional digraphia in Japan as revealed in consumer product preferences
Article Functional digraphia in Japan as revealed in consumer product preferences was published on August 10, 2001 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2001, issue 150)
Reconciling Comparative and Internal Reconstruction
Some Korean-Japanese comparisons involving Japanese coronals complicate the internal reconstruction of pre-Old Japanese. Post-OJ verb forms that end uniformly in, for example, ki have distinct OJ final syllables ( ki ≠ kwi ) according to the form or paradigm of the verb. This is not true for OJ syllables like ti , but scholars have assumed that pre-OJ * ti ≠ * twi , etc., were distributed in corresponding verb forms in the same way as OJ ki ≠ kwi…
The Symbolic Species
"Rejoinder to Geoffrey Sampson, "Chinese script and the diversity of writing systems
L'A. examine de maniere critique les hypotheses de G. Sampson (1994) a propos du systeme d'ecriture chinois. La question est de savoir quels sont les criteres qui definissent un systeme d'ecriture comme etant partiel ou complet. L'A. propose deux criteres: a) la presence ou l'absence d'un element phonographique dans le systeme; b) le degre de fonctionnalite de ce systeme, c'est-a-dire s'il est possible d'apprendre ce systeme pour des raisons prat…
Limitation Act, 1939
Law Reform (Personal Injuries) Act, 1948
Chinese Final Stops in Japanese
The Fifth Generation Fallacy
For several years much attention has been focused on Japan's highly publicized Fifth Generation Project, a research programme aimed at the development of 'intelligent' computers that can think like human beings. It has been claimed that such machines are the technology of the future, and whoever gets them first will emerge as the new leader of the world economy. In this book J. Marshall Unger shows that the West has completely misunderstood Japan…
The Very Idea. The Notion of Ideogram in China and Japan
A History of Writing in Japan
Language and the Modern State
Language and modernization - the Japanese experience pre-modern styles early stirrings - education and the press language and politics the role of literature the final stages the opposition the standardization debate the problem of orthography
"Rejoinder to Geoffrey Sampson, "Chinese script and the diversity of writing systems
L'A. examine de maniere critique les hypotheses de G. Sampson (1994) a propos du systeme d'ecriture chinois. La question est de savoir quels sont les criteres qui definissent un systeme d'ecriture comme etant partiel ou complet. L'A. propose deux criteres: a) la presence ou l'absence d'un element phonographique dans le systeme; b) le degre de fonctionnalite de ce systeme, c'est-a-dire s'il est possible d'apprendre ce systeme pour des raisons prat…
Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan
Japanese writing intermingles three different sets of characters, making it difficult to adapt to new technology. Unger looks at why the Japanese have not reformed their orthography and specifically the efforts at script reform that took place after the Second World War, and how and why that movement was defeated
Japan's Name Culture
Kanji Politics
Asia's Orthographic Dilemma
The Symbolic Species
Reconciling Comparative and Internal Reconstruction
Some Korean-Japanese comparisons involving Japanese coronals complicate the internal reconstruction of pre-Old Japanese. Post-OJ verb forms that end uniformly in, for example, ki have distinct OJ final syllables ( ki ≠ kwi ) according to the form or paradigm of the verb. This is not true for OJ syllables like ti , but scholars have assumed that pre-OJ * ti ≠ * twi , etc., were distributed in corresponding verb forms in the same way as OJ ki ≠ kwi…
Layers of Words and Volcanic Ash in Japan and Korea
Functional digraphia in Japan as revealed in consumer product preferences
Article Functional digraphia in Japan as revealed in consumer product preferences was published on August 10, 2001 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2001, issue 150)
Internal reconstruction in Hungarian
An internal reconstruction of Hungarian based mostly on the morphophonemic alternations of the modern language yields dramatically different results from those obtained from a purely synchronic approach to the same data. This article presents such a reconstruction and argues that the striking contrast between the forms and processes it entails and those favored by a synchronic analysis demonstrates the need to give performance ( parole ) at least…
The Peopling of East Asia
Preview this article: The Peopling of East Asia: Putting together archaeology, linguistics and genetics. Edited by Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench, & Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/dia.24.1.14ung-1.gif
The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages
Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-Korean-Japanese (pKJ), some scholars still reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a new way, interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence, much of which has come to light only in recent years. The weaknesses of the reconstruction, according to J. Marshall Unger, are due to the early date at which pKJ split apart a…
What linguistic units do Chinese characters represent
Using the Internet and spreadsheet software, it is now easy to compare word and character counts for modern and literary Chinese based on very large corpora. It turns out that word counts comply with Zipf’s Law whereas character counts do not. This constitutes novel statistical evidence against the persistent claim that Chinese characters are logograms. It thus casts doubt on the practice of categorizing the elements of various writing systems as…
Zipf and morphemes
Language Policy in Japan
Reviewed by: Language Policy in Japan: The Challenge of Change J. Marshall Unger (bio) Language Policy in Japan: The Challenge of Change. By Nanette Gottlieb. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012. xiv, 207 pages. £60.00, cloth; $79.00, E-book. In 2000, Nanette Gottlieb wrote that Japanese word-processing (JWP) technology had “put paid to any remaining hopes of romanisation by solving the hitherto stubborn input-output problem”; romanizatio…
History (15 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · History (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Chinese characters (4 works)