"This volume contains a selection of contributions to the Workshop on comparing approaches to measuring linguistic differences, held in Gothenburg on 24-25 October, 2011"--Preface. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record Includes bibliographical references and index IntroductionThe why and how of measuring linguistic differences / Lars Borin Case studiesContrasting linguistics and archaeology in the matrix model : GIS and cluster analysis of the Arawakan languages / Gerd Carling, Love Eriksen, Arthur Holmer and Joost van de Weijer Predicting language-learning difficulty / Michael Cysouw How aberrant are divergent Indo-European subgroups? / Folke Josephson Measuring socially motivated pronunciation differences / John Nerbonne, Sandrien van Ommen, Charlotte Gooskens and Martijn Wieling Distance-based phylogenetic inference algorithms in the subgrouping of Dravidian languages / Taraka Rama and Sudheer Kolachina Carving Tibeto-Kanauri by its joints : Using basic vocabulary lists for genetic grouping of languages / Anju Saxena and Lars Borin The effect of linguistic distance across Indo-European mother tongues on learning Dutch as a second language / Job Schepens, Frans van der Slik and Roeland van Hout Using semantically restricted word-lists to investigate relationships among Athapaskan languages / Conor Snoek Languages with longer words have more lexical change / Søren Wichmann and Eric W. Holmar Methods and toolsThe Intercontinental Dictionary Series : a rich and principled database for language comparison / Lars Borin, Bernard Comrie and Anju Saxena Towards automated language classification : a clustering approach / Armin Buch, David Erschler, Gerhard Jager and Andrei Lupas Dependency-sensitive typological distance / Harald Hammarstrom and Loretta O'Connor Degrees of semantic control in measuring aggregated lexical distances / Kris Heylen and Tom Ruette Word similarity, cognation, and translational equivalence / Grzegorz Kondrak Comparing linguistic systems of categorisation / William B. McGregor Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings / Jelena Prokić and Steven Moran Semantic typologies by means of network analysis "of bilingual dictionaries / Ineta Sejane and Steffen Eger Measuring morphosemantic language distance in parallel texts / Bernhard Wälchli and Ruprecht von Waldenfels Information-theoretic modeling of etymological sound change / Hannes Wettig, Javad Nouri, Kirill Reshetnikov and Roman Yangarber |
