3 papers
cs.CL2026
Using Correspondence Patterns to Identify Irregular Words in Cognate sets Through Leave-One-Out Validation
Frederic Blum, Johann-Mattis List
Regular sound correspondences constitute the principal evidence in historical language comparison. Despite the heuristic focus on regularity, it is often more an intuitive judgemen…
cs.CL2025
Over-representation of phonological features in basic vocabulary doesn't replicate when controlling for spatial and phylogenetic effects
Frederic Blum
The statistical over-representation of phonological features in the basic vocabulary of languages is often interpreted as reflecting potentially universal sound symbolic patterns.…
cs.CL2023
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…