Dialectal differences and linguistic divergence: A cross-linguistic survey of grammatical variation
Language Dynamics and Change, 2022 This article presents a new type of comparative linguistic survey, analysing (socio-)linguistic variation in a database of 1155 grammatical constructions drawn from 42 diverse languages. We focus in particular on variation in the expression of grammatical meanings, and the extent to which grammatical variation differentiates geographic dialects.
John Mansfield +2 more
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Convergence and divergence in empirical linguistics: Subject preferences for English 'roar'
, 2016 Abstract of presentation for ...
John Newman, Tamara Sorenson Duncan
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Fine-Grained Analysis of Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Divergences [PDF]
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020 The patterns in which the syntax of different languages converges and diverges are often used to inform work on cross-lingual transfer. Nevertheless, little empirical work has been done on quantifying the prevalence of different syntactic divergences across language pairs.
Nikolaev, Dmitry +6 more
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Replicator–mutator dynamics of linguistic convergence and divergence [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 People tend to align their use of language to the linguistic behaviour of their own ingroup and to simultaneously diverge from the language use of outgroups. This paper proposes to model this phenomenon of sociolinguistic identity maintenance as an evolutionary game in which individuals play the field and the dynamics are supplied by a multi-population
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Improving Authorship Verification using Linguistic Divergence
, 2021 We propose an unsupervised solution to the Authorship Verification task that utilizes pre-trained deep language models to compute a new metric called DV-Distance. The proposed metric is a measure of the difference between the two authors comparing against pre-trained language models.
Zhang, Yifan +4 more
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Empirical Risk Minimization for Probabilistic Grammars: Sample Complexity and Hardness of Learning [PDF]
, 2012 Probabilistic grammars are generative statistical models that are useful for compositional and sequential structures. They are used ubiquitously in computational linguistics.
Cohen, S. B., Smith, N. A.
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How accurate and robust are the phylogenetic estimates of Austronesian language relationships?
PLoS ONE, 2010 We recently used computational phylogenetic methods on lexical data to test between two scenarios for the peopling of the Pacific. Our analyses of lexical data supported a pulse-pause scenario of Pacific settlement in which the Austronesian speakers ...
Simon J Greenhill +2 more
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Phrasal Alternation in the Pondok Tinggi Dialect of Kerinci; an Intergenerational Analysis [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the implications of language contact in a Malay sub-variety known as Pondok Tinggi, spoken in Sumatra. My focus is on the grammatical phenomenon of phrasal alternation.
Ernanda, E. (E)
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From the Wild to the Cup: Tracking Footprints of the Tea Species in Time and Space
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2021 Tea is one of the world's most popular beverages, known for its cultural significance and numerous health benefits. A clear understanding of the origin and history of domestication of the tea species is a fundamental pre-requisite for effective germplasm
Moses C. Wambulwa +4 more
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Computational phylogenetics and the classification of South American languages [PDF]
, 2019 In recent years, South Americanist linguists have embraced computational phylogenetic methods to resolve the numerous outstanding questions about the genealogi- cal relationships among the languages of the continent.
Chousou‐Polydouri, Natalia +1 more
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