New Linguistic Families in California

Dixon, Roland Β.; Kroeber, A. L.

doi:10.1525/aa.1913.15.4.02a00050

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“…An example alignment analysis is illustrated in Figure 4 for translations of the comparison concept 'the man (male human)'. The use of alignments to annotate sound correspondences is an old technique that goes at least back to the early 20th century (Dixon and Kroeber 1919), long before automatic alignment algorithms were proposed (Covington 1996, Kondrak 2000. Unfortunately, alignments have only sporadically been employed so far (Haas 1969;Fox 1995: 67;Payne 1991).…”

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Challenges of annotation and analysis in computer-assisted language comparison: A case study on Burmish languages

Hill

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2017

Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting

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The use of computational methods in comparative linguistics is growing in popularity. The increasing deployment of such methods draws into focus those areas in which they remain inadequate as well as those areas where classical approaches to language comparison are untransparent and inconsistent. In this paper we illustrate specific challenges which both computational and classical approaches encounter when studying South-East Asian languages. With the help of data from the Burmish language family we point to the challenges resulting from missing annotation standards and insufficient methods for analysis and we illustrate how to tackle these problems within a computer-assisted framework in which computational approaches are used to pre-analyse the data while linguists attend to the detailed analyses.

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Section: Using Alignments For Sound-correspondence Annotationmentioning

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Challenges of annotation and analysis in computer-assisted language comparison: A case study on Burmish languages

Hill

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2017

Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting

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“…In fact, it is found in the very name of the Penutian family, which was coined by Dixon and Kroeber (1913) on the basis of the word for `2,' pen in some languages, uti in others. In the languages characterized by pen there is fluctuation in the final consonant between-n and-l. Since-n is more frequent in California Penutian than-l, the family is called Pen-utian rather than Pal-utian.…”

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Proto-Amerind Numerals.

Ruhlen¹

1995

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“…Swadesh first constructs a square table showing all the interrelationships among the languages or dialects in terms of the per cent of common vocabulary. This had been done earlier by Dkon and Kroeber (1919). Swadesh assumes that differences in vocabulary are caused by linguistic drift away from the mother tongue, although later mutual influence of geographically contiguous languages is not denied.…”

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Statistics in Anthropology

Driver

1953

American Anthropologist

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TATISTICAL concepts of one kind or another have been employed in S anthropology for over a century, but the emphasis has varied considerably among the constituent fields of anthropology. Physical anthropology has made the most use of statistics, while archeology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology have employed them much less frequently. If we compare anthropology as a whole to other social sciences, with which it is most commonly grouped, it is clear that economics, psychology, and sociology all use more statistics than anthropology.Why does anthropology differ in this respect from other social sciences and what can it say to justify its position? The most obtrusive fact which comes to mind is that anthropology covers a far greater range of subject matter, time, and space than other social sciences. Murdock (1951, p. 1) has recently conjectured that cultural anthropology surveys a range of human behavior perhaps a hundred times as great as history and a thousand times that of sociology. While his estimate seems high, it emphasizes the magnitude of the task anthropology has assumed and a t the same time the importance of this task to the sciences of human behavior. Another reason for lack of quantification, which applies mainly to cultural anthropology, is the lack of quantitative thinking on the part of the peoples we are studying. The culture of the United States today, with its money economy, weights and measures, and tax laws, provides the social scientist with perhaps a hundred times as many statistical facts as the ethnologist can obtain from his pre-literate and pre-industrial informants or from the amount of direct observation which they permit him to make.

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New Linguistic Families in California

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Challenges of annotation and analysis in computer-assisted language comparison: A case study on Burmish languages

Challenges of annotation and analysis in computer-assisted language comparison: A case study on Burmish languages

Proto-Amerind Numerals.

Statistics in Anthropology

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