Approaches to Measuring Linguistic DifferencesLars Borin, Anju Saxena 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. |
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algorithm alignment analysis Anatolian applied approach Arawak Arawak languages areal ASJP ASJPsim base dialects basic vocabulary bilingual dictionaries Chibcha classification cluster cognate cognate set collocations compared comparison Computational Linguistics corpus correlation corresponding CVCs database dataset distance measures distribution doculects Dravidian languages Dutch English factors Figure Finnish genealogical genetic German glottochronology Gooniyandi grammatical graph groups guages Haspelmath Hittite Holman Indo-European Indo-European languages investigation Kondrak language distance language family language pairs learner length Levenshtein distance lexemes lexical variation lexicostatistics linguistic distance matrix McGregor meaning method morphological morphosemantic n-gram Nerbonne noun Nyulnyul Nyulnyulan languages parameters phonetic phonological phylogenetic predicted pronunciation reconstruction regiolects regional speech sample scores semantic shows similarity Søren speakers standard structure subcorpora subgrouping Swadesh list texts tion Tocharian translations tree Tucano Tucano language typological UPGMA verb WALS Warrwa Wichmann word forms word lists