Automatic detection of borrowings in lexicostatistic datasets.: A workflow for automatic linguistic reconstruction
Year: 2012
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In this talk, we present a new, general workflow for automatic linguistic reconstruction. In contrast to previous approaches, we explicitly address the problem of automatic borrowing detection by employing a modified version of the method for the automatic reconstruction of phylogenetic networks by Nelson- Sathi et al. (2011). This method infers borrowings in sets of cognate words proposed for a given set of languages by searching for those cognate words whose distribution is not in concordance with a given reference tree. We modified the original method in such a way that it now is possible to map the lateral connections inferred by the method onto geographical maps. As a result, the areal component of language history, which is largely neglected in all pure tree-based approaches, can now explicitly be modeled.
Source: HAL
Authors: List, Johann-Mattis, Moran, Steven, Prokić, Jelena
Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4300666562