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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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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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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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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Vector spaces for historical linguistics: Using distributional semantics to study syntactic productivity in diachrony [PDF]
, 2014 This paper describes an application of dis- tributional semantics to the study of syn- tactic productivity in diachrony, i.e., the property of grammatical constructions to attract new lexical items over time.
Florent Perek
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“Old Chinese and Friends”: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area [PDF]
, 2019 List J-M, Starostin G, Yunfan L. “Old Chinese and Friends”: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area. Journal of Language Relationship.
Johann‐Mattis List +2 more
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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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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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Issues in Austronesian Historical Linguistics [PDF]
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017 This is a collection of five select articles on Austronesian historical linguistics from the 13-ICAL (International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics) in Taipei in 2015.
Hsiu-chuan Liao, Editor +5 more
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