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Quantifying language dynamics : on the cutting edge of areal and phylogenetic linguistics /

Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution. It draws upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, consti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wichmann, Søren, 1964- (Editor ), Good, Jeff (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Notes on Contributors; Introduction (Wichmann and Good); Exploring Phonological Areality in the Circum-Andean Region Using a Naive Bayes Classifier (Michael, Chang and Stark); Quantifying Geographical Determinants of Large-Scale Distributions of Linguistic Features (Hammarström and Güldemann); Languages with More Second Language Learners Tend to Lose Nominal Case (Bentz and Winter); Using Phylogenetic Networks to Model Chinese Dialect History (List, Shijulal, Martin and Geisler).
  • Phylogenetic Inference from Word Lists Using Weighted Alignment with Empirically Determined Weights (Jäger)Does Structural-Typological Similarity Affect Borrowability? (Seifart); Author Index; Index of Languages, Dialects, Language Groups, and Families; Subject Index.