Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences (eBook)

Lars Borin, Anju Saxena (Herausgeber)

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2013
553 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-030525-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The present volume collects contributions addressing different aspects of the measurement of linguistic differences, a topic which probably is as old as language itself but at the same time has acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of data-intensive computing in all fields of research, including linguistics.

Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Anju Saxena, Uppsala University, Sweden.

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Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Anju Saxena, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Introduction 9
The why and how of measuring linguistic differences 11
Case studies 35
Contrasting linguistics and archaeology in the matrix model: GIS and cluster analysis of the Arawakan languages 37
Predicting language-learning difficulty 65
How aberrant are divergent Indo-European subgroups? 91
Measuring socially motivated pronunciation differences 115
Distance-based phylogenetic inference algorithms in the subgrouping of Dravidian languages 149
Carving Tibeto-Kanauri by its joints: Using basic vocabulary lists for genetic grouping of languages 183
The effect of linguistic distance across Indo-European mother tongues on learning Dutch as a second language 207
Using semantically restricted word-lists to investigate relationships among Athapaskan languages 239
Languages with longer words have more lexical change 257
Methods and tools 291
The Intercontinental Dictionary Series – a rich and principled database for language comparison 293
Towards automated language classification: A clustering approach 311
Dependency-sensitive typological distance 337
Degrees of semantic control in measuring aggregated lexical distances 361
Word similarity, cognation, and translational equivalence 383
Comparing linguistic systems of categorisation 395
Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings 437
Semantic typologies by means of network analysis of bilingual dictionaries 455
Measuring morphosemantic language distance in parallel texts 483
Information-theoretic modeling of etymological sound change 515
Index 541

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2013
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Zusatzinfo: 62 b/w tbl.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 3-11-030525-9 / 3110305259
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-030525-8 / 9783110305258