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Open Problems in Computational Historical Linguistics [PDF]

Open Research Europe, 2023
Problems constitute the starting point of all scientific research. The essay reflects on the different kinds of problems that scientists address in their research and discusses a list of 10 problems for the field of computational ...
Johann-Mattis List
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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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Historical Linguistics in Australia: Trees, Networks and Their Implications [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2010
Claire Bowern
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Automated identification of borrowings in multilingual wordlists

Open Research Europe, 2021
Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets.
Johann-Mattis List, Robert Forkel
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Tolkien and Comparative Historical Linguistics

RiCognizioni, 2022
It is a well-known fact that J.R.R. Tolkien’s training as a philologist had a very strong impact on his work as a creator of languages. This paper aims to identify the influence of Tolkien’s academic background in the field of linguistic studies on the ...
Francesco Dedè
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Automated identification of borrowings in multilingual wordlists

Open Research Europe, 2022
Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets.
Johann-Mattis List, Robert Forkel
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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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Sprachgeschichte und dimensionale Sprachbetrachtung. Überlegungen zu den ungarischen sprachgeschichtlichen Forschungen im 21. Jahrhundert; pp. 284-290 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2012
Historical Linguistics and the Dimensional Language Approach. Notes on 21st-Century Research on the History of the Hungarian Language. In this short essay — based partially on the present state of Hungarian historical ­linguistic research — I ...
Juhász Dezső
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Open Problems in Computational Historical Linguistics

Open Research Europe, 2023
Problems constitute the starting point of all scientific research. The essay reflects on the different kinds of problems that scientists address in their research and discusses a list of 10 problems for the field of computational ...
Johann-Mattis List
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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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