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Investigating diachronic trends in phonological inventories using BDPROTO
Verkerk, Annemarie; Grossman, Eitan; Moran, Steven. - : Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2020
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.
Keyword: ddc:400; Historical linguistics; Language evolution; Phonological inventories; Phylogenetics
URL: https://doi.org/10.22028/D291-32034
http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-320343
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Detecting non-tree-like signal using multiple tree topologies
Verkerk, Annemarie. - : Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2019
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