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Approaches to measuring linguistic differences /
"The present volume collects contributions addressing different aspects of the measurement of linguistic differences, a topic which probably is as old as language itself butat the same timehas acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of data-intensive...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
265. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The why and how of measuring linguistic differences / Lars Borin
- Case studies
- Contrasting linguistics and archaeology in the matrix model : GIS and cluster analysis of the Arawakan languages / Gerd Carling, Love Eriksen, Arthur Holmer and Joost van de Weijer
- Predicting language-learning difficulty / Michael Cysouw
- How aberrant are divergent Indo-European subgroups? / Folke Josephson
- Measuring socially motivated pronunciation differences / John Nerbonne, Sandrien van Ommen, Charlotte Gooskens and Martijn Wieling
- Distance-based phylogenetic inference algorithms in the subgrouping of Dravidian languages / Taraka Rama and Sudheer Kolachina
- Carving Tibeto-Kanauri by its joints : Using basic vocabulary lists for genetic grouping of languages / Anju Saxena and Lars Borin
- The effect of linguistic distance across Indo-European mother tongues on learning Dutch as a second language / Job Schepens, Frans van der Slik and Roeland van Hout
- Using semantically restricted word-lists to investigate relationships among Athapaskan languages / Conor Snoek
- Languages with longer words have more lexical change / Søren Wichmann and Eric W. Holmar
- Methods and tools
- The Intercontinental Dictionary Series : a rich and principled database for language comparison / Lars Borin, Bernard Comrie and Anju Saxena
- Towards automated language classification : a clustering approach / Armin Buch, David Erschler, Gerhard Jager and Andrei Lupas
- Dependency-sensitive typological distance / Harald Hammarstrom and Loretta O'Connor
- Degrees of semantic control in measuring aggregated lexical distances / Kris Heylen and Tom Ruette
- Word similarity, cognation, and translational equivalence / Grzegorz Kondrak
- Comparing linguistic systems of categorisation / William B. McGregor
- Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings / Jelena Prokić and Steven Moran
- Semantic typologies by means of network analysis "of bilingual dictionaries / Ineta Sejane and Steffen Eger
- Measuring morphosemantic language distance in parallel texts / Bernhard Wälchli and Ruprecht von Waldenfels
- Information-theoretic modeling of etymological sound change / Hannes Wettig, Javad Nouri, Kirill Reshetnikov and Roman Yangarber
- Index.