Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences

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Contributor(s)
Saxena, Anju (editor)
Borin, Lars (editor)
Language
English
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Abstract
linguistics; linguistic differences
URI
https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/188225
Keywords
linguistics; linguistic differences; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics
DOI
10.1515/9783110305258
ISBN
9783110305258
Publisher
De Gruyter
Publisher website
http://www.degruyter.com/
Publication date and place
2013

Chapters in this book

  • Chapter Towards automated language classification
    Buch, Armin; Erschler, David; Jäger, Gerhard; Lupas, Andrei; Saxena, Anju; Borin, Lars (2013)
    In this paper, we discuss advantages of clustering approaches to automated language classification, describe distance measures used for this purpose, and present results of several proof-of-concept experiments. We advocate ...
  • Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change
    Wichmann, Søren; Holman, Eric W.; Saxena, Anju; Borin, Lars (2013)
    The findings to be presented in this paper were not anticipated, but came about as an unexpected result of looking at how the application of a version of the Levenshtein distance to word lists compares with cognate counting. ...
  • Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty
    Cysouw, Michael; Saxena, Anju; Borin, Lars (2013)
    The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as ...

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