Quantifying language dynamics : : on the cutting edge of areal and phylogenetic linguistics / / edited by Søren Wichmann, Jeff Good.
Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution. It draws upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, consti...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter / Søren Wichmann and Jeff Good
- Introduction / Søren Wichmann and Jeff Good
- Exploring Phonological Areality in the Circum-Andean Region Using a Naive Bayes Classifier / Lev Michael , Will Chang and Tammy Stark
- Quantifying Geographical Determinants of Large-Scale Distributions of Linguistic Features / Harald Hammarström and Tom Güldemann
- Languages with More Second Language Learners Tend to Lose Nominal Case / Christian Bentz and Bodo Winter
- Using Phylogenetic Networks to Model Chinese Dialect History / Johann-Mattis List , Nelson-Sathi Shijulal , William Martin and Hans Geisler
- Phylogenetic Inference from Word Lists Using Weighted Alignment with Empirically Determined Weights / Gerhard Jäger
- Does Structural-Typological Similarity Affect Borrowability? / Frank Seifart
- Indexes / Søren Wichmann and Jeff Good.