TY  - BOOK
AU  - Borin,Lars
AU  - Buch,Armin
AU  - Carling,Gerd
AU  - Comrie,Bernard
AU  - Cysouw,Michael
AU  - Eger,Steffen
AU  - Eriksen,Love
AU  - Erschler,David
AU  - Gooskens,Charlotte
AU  - Hammarström,Harald
AU  - Heylen,Kris
AU  - Holman,Eric W.
AU  - Holmer,Arthur
AU  - Hout,Roeland van
AU  - Josephson,Folke
AU  - Jäger,Gerhard
AU  - Kolachina,Sudheer
AU  - Kondrak,Grzegorz
AU  - Lupas,Andrei
AU  - McGregor,William B.
AU  - Moran,Steven
AU  - Nerbonne,John
AU  - Nouri,Javad
AU  - Ommen,Sandrien van
AU  - O’Connor,Loretta
AU  - Prokić,Jelena
AU  - Rama,Taraka
AU  - Reshetnikov,Kirill
AU  - Ruette,Tom
AU  - Saxena,Anju
AU  - Schepens,Job
AU  - Sejane,Ineta
AU  - Slik,Frans van der
AU  - Snoek,Conor
AU  - Waldenfels,Ruprecht von
AU  - Weijer,Joost van de
AU  - Wettig,Hannes
AU  - Wichmann,Søren
AU  - Wieling,Martijn
AU  - Wälchli,Bernhard
AU  - Yangarber,Roman
TI  - Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110303759
U1  - 400 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; The why and how of measuring linguistic differences --; Case studies --; Contrasting linguistics and archaeology in the matrix model: GIS and cluster analysis of the Arawakan languages --; Predicting language-learning difficulty --; How aberrant are divergent Indo-European subgroups? --; Measuring socially motivated pronunciation differences --; Distance-based phylogenetic inference algorithms in the subgrouping of Dravidian languages --; Carving Tibeto-Kanauri by its joints: Using basic vocabulary lists for genetic grouping of languages --; The effect of linguistic distance across Indo-European mother tongues on learning Dutch as a second language --; Using semantically restricted word-lists to investigate relationships among Athapaskan languages --; Languages with longer words have more lexical change --; Methods and tools --; The Intercontinental Dictionary Series – a rich and principled database for language comparison --; Towards automated language classification: A clustering approach --; Dependency-sensitive typological distance --; Degrees of semantic control in measuring aggregated lexical distances --; Word similarity, cognation, and translational equivalence --; Comparing linguistic systems of categorisation --; Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings --; Semantic typologies by means of network analysis of bilingual dictionaries --; Measuring morphosemantic language distance in parallel texts --; Information-theoretic modeling of etymological sound change --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110305258
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110305258
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110305258/original
ER  -