In this work we compare, on the well explored domain of Indo-European languages, the phylogenetic outputs of three different sets of linguistic characters: traditional etymological judgments, a system for phonetic alignment of lists of cognates, and a set of values for generative syntactic parameters. The correlation and relative informativeness of distances and phylogenies generated by the three types of char- acters can thus be for the first time accurately evaluated, and the degree of success of the last two, innovative, alternatives to the classical comparative method can be so assessed.
Correlated Evolution Or Not? Phylogenetic Linguistics With Syntactic, Cognacy, And Phonetic Data / Longobardi, Giuseppe; Buch, Armin; Ceolin, Andrea; Ecay, Aaron; Guardiano, Cristina; Irimia, Monica Alexandrina; Michelioudakis, Dimitris; Radkevich, Nina; Jaeger, Gerhard. - ELETTRONICO. - (2016), pp. 1-9. (Intervento presentato al convegno The 11th Evolution of Language conference (EVOLANG) tenutosi a New Orleans nel 20-24/03/2016) [10.17617/2.2248195].
Correlated Evolution Or Not? Phylogenetic Linguistics With Syntactic, Cognacy, And Phonetic Data
LONGOBARDI, GIUSEPPE;GUARDIANO, Cristina;IRIMIA, Monica Alexandrina;
2016
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In this work we compare, on the well explored domain of Indo-European languages, the phylogenetic outputs of three different sets of linguistic characters: traditional etymological judgments, a system for phonetic alignment of lists of cognates, and a set of values for generative syntactic parameters. The correlation and relative informativeness of distances and phylogenies generated by the three types of char- acters can thus be for the first time accurately evaluated, and the degree of success of the last two, innovative, alternatives to the classical comparative method can be so assessed.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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