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Character Entropy in Modern and Historical Texts: Comparison Metrics for an Undeciphered Manuscript
Luke Lindemann, Claire Bowern
This paper outlines the creation of three corpora for multilingual comparison and analysis of the Voynich manuscript: a corpus of Voynich texts partitioned by Currier language, scr…
cs.CL2020★ 153 cited
Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics
Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes, Claire Bowern, Erich R. Round
Phylogenetic methods have broad potential in linguistics beyond tree inference. Here, we show how a phylogenetic approach opens the possibility of gaining historical insights from…