Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences / / ed. by Anju Saxena, Lars Borin.
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 com...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (545 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110305258 9783110238570 9783110238457 9783110636970 9783110742961 9783110317350 9783110317244 9783110317237 |
ISSN: | 1861-4302 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110305258 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Anju Saxena, Lars Borin. |