The similarity of the letters in the Latin alphabet has been measured numerous times using a variety of methodologies and stimuli. We provide a comprehensive review of past attempts to construct similarity spaces of the Latin alphabet, and determine that accuracy has frequently been attributed to a subset of three common sources: perceivability, bias, and similarity. We present the results of t...

This paper presents an investigation of the entropy of the Telugu script. Since this script is syllabic, and not alphabetic, the computation of entropy is somewhat complicated.

There has been mounting concern among social scientists that conclusions from studies conducted on highly educated populations from affluent European cultures may have limited applicability to human behavior in general (Henrich et al., 2010). Similar reservations have also been voiced in the fields of language (Evans and Levinson, 2009) and literacy (Share, 2008a; Frost, 2012). Reading research...

We develop a linear time algorithm algorithm for the following problem: given an ordered sequence of n real weights w1, w2, . . . , wn, construct a binary tree on n leaves labeled with those weights when read from left to right so that the maximum value of wi plus depth of the i-th leftmost leaf is minimized. This improves the previously known O(n logn) time solutions [2,11,13]. We also give a ...