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Quantitative comparative linguistics

Known as: Comparative (disambiguation), Mean phonological similarity score, Phonological similarity score 
Statistical methods have been used in comparative linguistics since at least the 1950s (see Swadesh list). Since about the year 2000, there has been… 
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2015
2015
THE ACQUISITION OF VERBAL MORPHOLOGY IN GERMAN CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT-A FOLLOW UP STUDY AT AGE 7
The acquisition of verbal morphology may be affected in children with hearing impairment (HI). In a recent study on the… 
2013
2013
The comparative morpheme in Modern Japanese: looking at the core from ‘outside’
Japanese differs from languages like English in that it (usually) has no overt comparative morphology like the English -er/more… 
2011
2011
Perceptual similarity in input–output mappings: A computational/experimental study of non-native speech production
2010
2010
Neighborhood Density in Phonological Alternations
in lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt: Neighborhood density (ND) is a measure of how similar a word is to other words… 
2009
2009
Lengthened affricates as a test case for the phonetics–phonology interface
Many phonetic and phonological processes resemble one another, which has led some researchers to suggest that phonetics and… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Working memory and sentence comprehension 1 Is phonological working memory involved in sentence comprehension ? The difference between phonological and semantic reactivation
This study explored the nature of the relation between phonological working memory (pWM) and sentence comprehension, via the… 
2006
2006
An empirical investigation of the association between musical aptitude and foreign language aptitude
2004
2004
Reduplication in English Homeric Infixation Reduplication in English Homeric Infixation
  • A. Yu
  • 2004
  • Corpus ID: 14524389
1. Introduction In the Base-Reduplicant Correspondence Theory (BRCT: McCarthy & Prince 1995) reduplication is induced by the… 
2002
2002
PERSPECTIVES OF COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON THE MANDE AND WEST ATLANTIC LANGUAGE GROUPS: AN APPROACH TO THE QUANTITATIVE COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS
Statistical methods in comparative linguistics have been widely applied in only one peripheral field, namely the glotto… 
1999
1999
More on the Third Dialect of English: Linguistic constraints on the use of three phonological variables in Pittsburgh
Traditional dialect boundaries in the United States have received renewed attention (Labov, 1991, 1994). Labov outlined three… 
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