Borin / Saxena Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-030525-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 265, 553 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borin, Lars

Saxena, Anju

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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