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
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