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Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics: A study inspired by trees [PDF]
Odisea, 2017 : This innovative perspective on historical linguistics, linguistics, and applied linguistics examines these areas of study with the role of trees in mind.
María Del Carmen Arau Ribeiro
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Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages: Progress and Problems [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In contrast to scholars and signers in the nineteenth century, William Stokoe conceived of American Sign Language (ASL) as a unique linguistic tradition with roots in nineteenth-century langue des signes française, a conception that is apparent in his ...
Justin M. Power
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Linguistics in applied linguistics : a historical overview
Journal of English Studies, 2002 This paper looks at some of the underlying reasons which might explain the uncertainty surrounding applied linguistics as an academic enquiry. The opening section traces the emergence of the field through its professional associations and publications ...
Tony Harris
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Computational historical linguistics and language diversity in South Asia [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 South Asia is home to a plethora of languages, many of which severely lack access to new language technologies. This linguistic diversity also results in a research environment conducive to the study of comparative, contact, and historical linguistics ...
Aryaman Arora +3 more
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Word prediction in computational historical linguistics
Journal of Language Modelling, 2021 In this paper, we investigate how the prediction paradigm from machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be put to use in computational historical linguistics. We propose word prediction as an intermediate task, where the forms of unseen
Peter Dekker, Willem Zuidema
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Computational historical linguistics [PDF]
Theoretical Linguistics, 2019 AbstractComputational approaches to historical linguistics have been proposed for half a century. Within the last decade, this line of research has received a major boost, owing both to the transfer of ideas and software from computational biology and to the release of several large electronic data resources suitable for systematic comparative work. In
Gerhard Jäger
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The Potential of Automatic Word Comparison for Historical Linguistics. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2017 The amount of data from languages spoken all over the world is rapidly increasing. Traditional manual methods in historical linguistics need to face the challenges brought by this influx of data.
List JM, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD.
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Automatic Identification and Production of Related Words for Historical Linguistics [PDF]
Computational Linguistics, 2019 Language change across space and time is one of the main concerns in historical linguistics. In this article, we develop tools to assist researchers and domain experts in the study of language evolution.
Alina Maria Ciobanu, Liviu P. Dinu
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Comparative-Historical Linguistics
, 2013 Historical linguistics is about how and why language changes over time. Comparative linguistics, in the relevant sense, is the study of linguistic relatedness, that is to say, of genetic or ancestral connections and related matters of subgrouping extending to the reconstruction of unattested ancestral languages or proto-languages.
Joseph Salmons, Emily Utz
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The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities, 2020 This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics.
Freek Van de Velde, Peter Petré
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