Sequence Comparison in Historical Linguistics / / Mattis List.

• VerfasserIn: List, Mattis,
• Place / Publishing House: Düsseldorf : : düsseldorf university press,, [2014]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021; 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Dissertations in Language and Cognition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Historical Linguistics --; 3 Sequence Comparison --; 4 Sequence Comparison in Historical Linguistics --; 5 Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Sources --; Dictionaries and Databases --; Supplementary Material --; List of Abbreviations --; Indices --; Appendix A. Language-Specific Resources --; Appendix B. Sequence Modelling --; Appendix C. Phonetic Alignment --; Appendix D. Cognate Detection
• ISBN: 3110720086
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mattis List.

The comparison of sound sequences (words, morphemes) constitutes the core of many techniques and methods in historical linguistics. With the help of these techniques, corresponding sounds can be determined, historically related words can be identified, and the history of languages can be uncovered. So far, the application of traditional techniques for sequence comparison is very tedious and time-consuming, since scholars have to apply them manually, without computational support. In this study, algorithms from bioinformatics are used to develop computational methods for sequence comparison in historical linguistics. The new methods automatize several steps of the traditional comparative method and can thus help to ease the painstaking work of language comparison. Dissertations in Language and Cognition This series explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center 'The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts.