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Quantifying Language Dynamics : On the Cutting edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics.
Title:
Quantifying Language Dynamics : On the Cutting edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics.
Author:
Wichmann, Soren.
ISBN:
9789004281523
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction (Wichmann and Good) -- Exploring Phonological Areality in the Circum-Andean Region Using a Naive Bayes Classifier (Michael, Chang and Stark) -- Quantifying Geographical Determinants of Large-Scale Distributions of Linguistic Features (Hammarström and Güldemann) -- Languages with More Second Language Learners Tend to Lose Nominal Case (Bentz and Winter) -- Using Phylogenetic Networks to Model Chinese Dialect History (List, Shijulal, Martin and Geisler) -- Phylogenetic Inference from Word Lists Using Weighted Alignment with Empirically Determined Weights (Jäger) -- Does Structural-Typological Similarity Affect Borrowability? (Seifart) -- Author Index -- Index of Languages, Dialects, Language Groups, and Families -- Subject Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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