Approaches to measuring linguistic differences
by
 
Borin, Lars.

Title
Approaches to measuring linguistic differences

Author
Borin, Lars.

ISBN
9783110303759

Publication Information
Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, c2013.

Physical Description
viii, 545 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 265
 
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 265.

General Note
"This volume contains a selection of contributions to the Workshop on comparing approaches to measuring linguistic differences, held in Gothenburg on 24-25 October, 2011."-- Preface.

Contents
The why and how of measuring linguistic differences / Case studies -- Contrasting linguistics and archaeology in the matrix model : GIS and cluster analysis of the Arawakan languages / Predicting language-learning difficulty / How aberrant are divergent Indo-European subgroups? / Measuring socially motivated pronunciation differences / Distance-based phylogenetic inference algorithms in the subgrouping of Dravidian languages / Carving Tibeto-Kanauri by its joints : Using basic vocabulary lists for genetic grouping of languages / The effect of linguistic distance across Indo-European mother tongues on learning Dutch as a second language^^
 
Using semantically restricted word-lists to investigate relationships among Athapaskan languages / Languages with longer words have more lexical change / Methods and tools -- The Intercontinental Dictionary Series : a rich and principled database for language comparison / Towards automated language classification : a clustering approach / Dependency-sensitive typological distance / Degrees of semantic control in measuring aggregated lexical distances / Word similarity, cognation, and translational equivalence / Comparing linguistic systems of categorisation
 
Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings / Semantic typologies by means of network analysis "of bilingual dictionaries / Measuring morphosemantic language distance in parallel texts / Information-theoretic modeling of etymological sound change

Subject Term
Linguistics -- Congresses.

Added Author
Borin, Lars.
 
Saxena, Anju, 1959-


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