Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences / / ed. by Anju Saxena, Lars Borin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Borin, Lars,; Buch, Armin,; Carling, Gerd,; Comrie, Bernard,; Cysouw, Michael,; Eger, Steffen,; Eriksen, Love,; Erschler, David,; Gooskens, Charlotte,; Hammarström, Harald,; Heylen, Kris,; Holman, Eric W.,; Holmer, Arthur,; Hout, Roeland van,; Josephson, Folke,; Jäger, Gerhard,; Kolachina, Sudheer,; Kondrak, Grzegorz,; Lupas, Andrei,; McGregor, William B.,; Moran, Steven,; Nerbonne, John,; Nouri, Javad,; Ommen, Sandrien van,; O’Connor, Loretta,; Prokić, Jelena,; Rama, Taraka,; Reshetnikov, Kirill,; Ruette, Tom,; Saxena, Anju,; Schepens, Job,; Sejane, Ineta,; Slik, Frans van der,; Snoek, Conor,; Waldenfels, Ruprecht von,; Weijer, Joost van de,; Wettig, Hannes,; Wichmann, Søren,; Wieling, Martijn,; Wälchli, Bernhard,; Yangarber, Roman,
• HerausgeberIn: Borin, Lars,; Saxena, Anju,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 265
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (545 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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