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Dellert, Johannes

 
9781013294549: Information-theoretic Causal Inference of Lexical Flow
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ISBN 10: 1013294548 ISBN 13: 9781013294549
Editorial: Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

Sinopsis

This volume seeks to infer large phylogenetic networks from phonetically encoded lexical data and contribute in this way to the historical study of language varieties. The technical step that enables progress in this case is the use of causal inference algorithms. Sample sets of words from language varieties are preprocessed into automatically inferred cognate sets, and then modeled as information-theoretic variables based on an intuitive measure of cognate overlap. Causal inference is then applied to these variables in order to determine the existence and direction of influence among the varieties. The directed arcs in the resulting graph structures can be interpreted as reflecting the existence and directionality of lexical flow, a unified model which subsumes inheritance and borrowing as the two main ways of transmission that shape the basic lexicon of languages.

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Editorial
Saint Philip Street Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1013294548
ISBN 13 
9781013294549
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Número de páginas
382
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