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Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences

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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.

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

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    Preface

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    Contents

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  • Introduction
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    The why and how of measuring linguistic differences

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    Lars Borin
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    Contrasting linguistics and archaeology in the matrix model: GIS and cluster analysis of the Arawakan languages

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    Gerd Carling, Love Eriksen, Arthur Holmer and Joost van de Weijer
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    Predicting language-learning difficulty

    57
    Michael Cysouw
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    How aberrant are divergent Indo-European subgroups?

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    Folke Josephson
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    Measuring socially motivated pronunciation differences

    107
    John Nerbonne, Sandrien van Ommen, Charlotte Gooskens and Martijn Wieling
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    Distance-based phylogenetic inference algorithms in the subgrouping of Dravidian languages

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    Taraka Rama and Sudheer Kolachina
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    Carving Tibeto-Kanauri by its joints: Using basic vocabulary lists for genetic grouping of languages

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    Anju Saxena and Lars Borin
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    The effect of linguistic distance across Indo-European mother tongues on learning Dutch as a second language

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    Job Schepens, Frans van der Slik and Roeland van Hout
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    Using semantically restricted word-lists to investigate relationships among Athapaskan languages

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    Conor Snoek
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    Languages with longer words have more lexical change

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    Søren Wichmann and Eric W. Holman
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  • Methods and tools
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    The Intercontinental Dictionary Series – a rich and principled database for language comparison

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    Lars Borin, Bernard Comrie and Anju Saxena
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    Towards automated language classification: A clustering approach

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    Armin Buch, David Erschler, Gerhard Jäger and Andrei Lupas
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    Dependency-sensitive typological distance

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    Harald Hammarström and Loretta O’Connor
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    Degrees of semantic control in measuring aggregated lexical distances

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    Kris Heylen and Tom Ruette
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    Word similarity, cognation, and translational equivalence

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    Grzegorz Kondrak
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    Comparing linguistic systems of categorisation

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    William B. McGregor
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    Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings

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    Jelena Prokić and Steven Moran
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    Semantic typologies by means of network analysis of bilingual dictionaries

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    Ineta Sejane and Steffen Eger
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    Measuring morphosemantic language distance in parallel texts

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    Bernhard Wälchli and Ruprecht von Waldenfels
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    Information-theoretic modeling of etymological sound change

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    Hannes Wettig, Javad Nouri, Kirill Reshetnikov and Roman Yangarber
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    Index

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eBook published on:
October 14, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9783110305258
Hardcover published on:
September 26, 2013
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110303759
Paperback published on:
June 20, 2016
Paperback ISBN:
9783110488081
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110305258
eBook ISBN: 9783110305258
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110303759
Paperback ISBN: 9783110488081
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