Automatic Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns across Multiple Languages

Sound correspondence patterns play a crucial role for linguistic reconstruction. Linguists use them to prove language relationship, to reconstruct proto-forms, and for classical phylogenetic reconstruction based on shared innovations. Cognate words that fail to conform with expected patterns can fur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johann-Mattis List
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2019-03-01
Series:Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli_a_00344