Writing Process Analysis Tools for Chinese: Creating an instrumental basis for contrastive research.

Inputlog is a keystroke logging tool to monitor written language production, developed at the University of Antwerp (www.inputlog.net) and used worldwide. Inputlog can handle most Western alphabets, including for instance Greek or Sami, without any other tuning than the selection of the appropriate regional setting and keyboard layout. But no easy way exists to represent the large number of Chinese logograms on a keyboard. However, there is a growing demand for tools to study the Chinese language and this includes a request to broaden the possibilities of Inputlog, both from Western researchers who study Chinese as from Chinese writing researchers.

Keywords:CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS, WRITING PROCESSES, CHINESE LINGUISTICS

Disciplines:Linguistics, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies