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Titel: Investigating diachronic trends in phonological inventories using BDPROTO
VerfasserIn: Moran, Steven
Grossman, Eitan
Verkerk, Annemarie
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Language Resources and Evaluation
Bandnummer: 2020
Verlag/Plattform: Springer Nature
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Freie Schlagwörter: Historical linguistics
Language evolution
Phylogenetics
Phonological inventories
DDC-Sachgruppe: 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: Here we present an expanded version of BDPROTO, a database comprising phonological inventory data from 257 ancient and reconstructed languages. These data were extracted from historical linguistic reconstructions and brought together into a single unified, normalized, accessible, and Unicode-compliant language resource. This dataset is publicly available and we aim to engage language scientists doing research on language change and language evolution. Furthermore, we identify a hitherto undiscussed temporal bias that complicates the simple compar- ison of ancient and reconstructed languages with present-day languages. Due to the sparsity of the data and the absence of statistical and computational methods that can adequately handle this bias, we instead directly target rates of change within and across families, thereby providing a case study to highlight BDPROTO’s research viability; using phylogenetic comparative methods and high-resolution language family trees, we investigate whether consonantal and vocalic systems differ in their rates of change over the last 10,000 years. In light of the compilation of BDPROTO and the findings of our case study, we discuss the challenges involved in comparing the sound systems of reconstructed languages with modern day languages.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.1007/s10579-019-09483-3
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-320343
hdl:20.500.11880/29633
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-32034
ISSN: 1574-0218
Datum des Eintrags: 4-Sep-2020
Fakultät: P - Philosophische Fakultät
Fachrichtung: P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie
Professur: P - Keiner Professur zugeordnet
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