Historical Linguistics
Cladistic Parsimony, Historical Linguistics and Cultural Phylogenetics
... within historical linguistics, a number of studies attempting to reconstruct the historical relationship between extant languages have been undertaken using methods normally used by biologists to ...
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Simulating Language Evolution: a Tool for Historical Linguistics
... in historical linguistics are the following (Rama and Borin, 2014): i) How are languages related? and ii) How do languages change across space and ...
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A Benchmark Database of Phonetic Alignments in Historical Linguistics and Dialectology
... Despite an increasing number of studies that rely on pairwise and multiple alignment analyses in historical linguistics and dialectology, a systematic evaluation of the performance of those algorithms has ...
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An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics
... In this paper we proposed an automated frame- work for very fast and still highly reliable phyloge- netic reconstruction in historical linguistics. Our framework introduces two new methods. The Bip- Skip ...
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An Open Source Toolkit for Quantitative Historical Linguistics
... in historical linguistics, it is im- portant that scholars have a basis for doc- umenting, testing, evaluating, and shar- ing complex ...in historical linguistics that offers these ...
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KSUCCA: a key to exploring Arabic historical linguistics
... In this paper, we present KSUCCA a pioneering 50 million words corpus of Classical Arabic with various genres and sub genres that can be used in various types of Linguistic and Computational Linguistic research. We also ...
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Problems in Computerized Historical Linguistics: The Old Cornish Lexicon
... PROBLEMS IN COMPUTERIZED HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS THE OLD CORNISH LEXICON ENRICO CAMPANILE ANTO~qIO ZA~POLr~ P R O B L E M S I N C O M P U T E R I Z E D H I S T O R I C A L LINGUISTICS THE OLD C O R N I[.] ...
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Vector spaces for historical linguistics: Using distributional semantics to study syntactic productivity in diachrony
... This paper reports the first attempt at using a dis- tributional measure of semantic similarity derived from a vector-space model for the study of syn- tactic productivity in diachrony. On the basis of a case study of ...
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Are Automatic Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics?
... While we find that on average the trees inferred from the expert-annotated cognate sets come closer to the gold standard trees, the trees in- ferred from automated cognate sets come surp[r] ...
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Fluid Construction Grammar for Historical and Evolutionary Linguistics
... Historical linguistics has been radically trans- formed over the past two decades by the ad- vent of corpus-based approaches. Ever increas- ing datasets, both in size and richness of anno- tation, are ...
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Computational Cognitive Linguistics
... For some sixteen years, an interdisciplinary group at ICSI and UC Berkeley has been building a theory of language that respects all experimental findings and is consistent with biological and computational constraints. ...
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PIAGET’S STRUCTURALISM AND LINGUISTICS
... and linguistics, but there is a common component among these views regarding ...to linguistics and thus to the process of language acquisition and finally it will look at an attempt to mathematize the ...
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Intro to Linguistics Semantics
... Therefore in this theory, V´ aclav Klaus and the current Czech president have different meanings, as we want.... 2.1 Relations between words.[r] ...
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A Biopsychological Foundation for Linguistics
... This thesis addresses the metaphysics and epistemology of scientific linguistics. Natural languages, I argue, are concrete biopsychological phenomena to be studied empirically, rather than abstract ...
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Computation in Departments of Linguistics
... work and simply transfer the contents of the CRY screen t o the paper including graphic materials They are expensive However, a small department mlght.. either over cormbunication lines [r] ...
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Parsed Corpora for Linguistics
... The first illustration of our thesis that parsed cor- pora provide an interesting new resource for lin- guists, constitutes more of an anecdote than a sys- tematic study. We include the example, presented earlier in van ...
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An Overview of Applied Linguistics
... Applied linguistics describes the language and teaches how.. it is learned and used.[r] ...
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Deixis in Modern Linguistics and Outside
... modern linguistics is one of the most remarkable and successful scientific innovations of the twentieth ...modern linguistics is held up as a model of scientific innovation to other disciplines in the ...of ...
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PhD-School of Linguistics
... The essay examines the language of the Hungarian economical trade press concerning its neologism between 2000 and 2005. This paper looks at the vocabulary of two major Hungarian economic newspapers, the Heti ...
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