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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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Quantifying the quantitative (re-)turn in historical linguistics
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Historical linguistics is the study of language change and stability, of the history of individual languages, and of the relatedness between languages. In spite of numerous acknowledgements, the adoption of quantitative methods in historical linguistics ...
Barbara McGillivray, Gard B. Jenset
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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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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 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. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics ...
Freek Van de Velde, Peter Petré
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Model evaluation in computational historical linguistics [PDF]
Theoretical Linguistics, 2019 This is a reply to the comments by Hammarström et al. (This volume) and List (This volume) on the target article Computational Historical Linguistics (This volume).
Gerhard Jäger
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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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Are Automatic Methods for Cognate Detection Good Enough for Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Historical Linguistics? [PDF]
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018 We evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms for automatic cognate detection by comparing how useful automatically inferred cognates are for the task of phylogenetic inference compared to classical manually annotated cognate sets.
Taraka Rama +3 more
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Sequence comparison in computational historical linguistics [PDF]
Journal of Language Evolution, 2018 With increasing amounts of digitally available data from all over the world, manual annotation of cognates in multi-lingual word lists becomes more and more time-consuming in historical linguistics.
Johann‐Mattis List +4 more
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