[HTML][HTML] Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features

JM List, R Forkel, SJ Greenhill, C Rzymski, J Englisch… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
The past decades have seen substantial growth in digital data on the world's languages. At
the same time, the demand for cross-linguistic datasets has been increasing, as witnessed …

Neural Approaches to Historical Words Reconstruction

C Fourrier - 2022 - theses.hal.science
In historical linguistics, cognates are words that descend in direct line from a common
ancestor, called their proto-form, and therefore are representative of their respective …

Detecting lexical borrowings from dominant languages in multilingual wordlists

JE Miller, JM List - ar** - Traces of Contact in the …, 2023 - library.oapen.org
In many parts of eastern Indonesia and Melanesia, speech communities often lackarchaeologicaldataandhistoricalwritten…
, meaningthatlinguistic data is the only means by which to reconstruct past social …

Open problems in computational historical linguistics

JM List - Open Research Europe, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Problems constitute the starting point of all scientific research. The essay reflects on the
different kinds of problems that scientists address in their research and discusses a list of 10 …