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1 online resource (545 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs,
1861-4302 ;
265
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 265.
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| Note |
"This volume contains a selection of contributions to the Workshop on comparing approaches to measuring linguistic differences, held in Gothenburg on 24-25 October, 2011"--Preface. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Why and how of measuring linguistic differences / Lars Borin -- Case studies -- Contrasting linguistics and archaeology in the matrix model : GIS and cluster analysis of the Arawakan languages / Gerd Carling, Love Eriksen, Arthur Holmer and Joost van de Weijer -- Predicting language-learning difficulty / Michael Cysouw -- How aberrant are divergent Indo-European subgroups? / Folke Josephson -- Measuring socially motivated pronunciation differences / John Nerbonne, Sandrien van Ommen, Charlotte Gooskens and Martijn Wieling -- Distance-based phylogenetic inference algorithms in the subgrouping of Dravidian languages / Taraka Rama and Sudheer Kolachina -- Carving Tibeto-Kanauri by its joints : Using basic vocabulary lists for genetic grouping of languages / Anju Saxena and Lars Borin -- Effect of linguistic distance across Indo-European mother tongues on learning Dutch as a second language / Job Schepens, Frans van der Slik and Roeland van Hout -- Using semantically restricted word-lists to investigate relationships among Athapaskan languages / Conor Snoek -- Languages with longer words have more lexical change / Søren Wichmann and Eric W. Holmar -- Methods and tools -- Intercontinental Dictionary Series : a rich and principled database for language comparison / Lars Borin, Bernard Comrie and Anju Saxena -- Towards automated language classification : a clustering approach / Armin Buch, David Erschler, Gerhard Jager and Andrei Lupas -- Dependency-sensitive typological distance / Harald Hammarstrom and Loretta O'Connor -- Degrees of semantic control in measuring aggregated lexical distances / Kris Heylen and Tom Ruette -- Word similarity, cognation, and translational equivalence / Grzegorz Kondrak -- Comparing linguistic systems of categorisation / William B. McGregor -- Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings / Jelena Prokić and Steven Moran -- Semantic typologies by means of network analysis "of bilingual dictionaries / Ineta Sejane and Steffen Eger -- Measuring morphosemantic language distance in parallel texts / Bernhard Wälchli and Ruprecht von Waldenfels -- Information-theoretic modeling of etymological sound change / Hannes Wettig, Javad Nouri, Kirill Reshetnikov and Roman Yangarber -- Index. |
| 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 butat the same timehas acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of data-intensive computing in all fields of research, including linguistics"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Linguistics -- Congresses.
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Linguistics -- Congresses. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Borin, Lars, editor.
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Saxena, Anju, 1959- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Approaches to measuring linguistic differences. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2013 9783110303759 (DLC) 2013474638 (OCoLC)861177190 |
| ISBN |
9783110305258 (electronic book) |
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3110305259 (electronic book) |
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9781306091794 (electronic book) |
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1306091799 (electronic book) |
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9783110305265 (print + online) |
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3110305267 (print + online) |
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9783110303759 (hardcover) |
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3110303752 (hardcover) |
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