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In search of isoglosses: continuous and discrete language embeddings in Slavic historical phonology
Chundra A. Cathcart, Florian Wandl
This paper investigates the ability of neural network architectures to effectively learn diachronic phonological generalizations in a multilingual setting. We employ models using t…
cs.CL2020
Dialectal Layers in West Iranian: a Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Approach to Linguistic Relationships
Chundra Aroor Cathcart
This paper addresses a series of complex and unresolved issues in the historical phonology of West Iranian languages. The West Iranian languages (Persian, Kurdish, Balochi, and oth…