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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Language: | English |
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The MIT Press
2019-03-01
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Series: | Computational Linguistics |
Online Access: | https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/coli_a_00344 |