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A Computational Model for the Assessment of Mutual Intelligibility Among Closely Related Languages
Jessica Nieder, Johann-Mattis List
Closely related languages show linguistic similarities that allow speakers of one language to understand speakers of another language without having actively learned it. Mutual int…
Representing and Computing Uncertainty in Phonological Reconstruction
Johann-Mattis List, Nathan W. Hill, Robert Forkel +1
Despite the inherently fuzzy nature of reconstructions in historical linguistics, most scholars do not represent their uncertainty when proposing proto-forms. With the increasing s…
Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists
Julius Steuer, Badr Abdullah, Johann-Mattis List +1
We present a cross-linguistic study that aims to quantify vowel harmony using data-driven computational modeling. Concretely, we define an information-theoretic measure of harmonic…
Detecting Lexical Borrowings from Dominant Languages in Multilingual Wordlists
John E. Miller, Johann-Mattis List
Language contact is a pervasive phenomenon reflected in the borrowing of words from donor to recipient languages. Most computational approaches to borrowing detection treat all lan…
Inference of Partial Colexifications from Multilingual Wordlists
Johann-Mattis List
The past years have seen a drastic rise in studies devoted to the investigation of colexification patterns in individual languages families in particular and the languages of the w…