I'm now interested in pedigree classification of languages.
Who knows some computational quantified method to classify different existing languages or to measure the distance between any two languages?
Can you give me a list of relevant articles?
- Shedding more light on language classification using basic vocabularies and phylogenetic methods. Kaj Syrjänen, Terhi Honkola, Kalle Korhonen, Jyri Lehtinen, Outi Vesakoski and Niklas Wahlberg. John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013.
- Finding Families: Quantitative Methods in Language Classification. April McMahon and Robert McMahon. Transactions of the Philological Society
Volume 101, Issue 1, pages 7–55, April 2003.
Wichmann, S., & Saunders, A. (2007). How to use typological databases in historical linguistic research. Diachronica, 24(2), 373-404.
Brown, C. H., Holman, E. W., Wichmann, S., & Velupillai, V. (2008). Automated classification of the world′ s languages: a description of the method and preliminary results. STUF-Language Typology and Universals Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 61(4), 285-308.
Holman, E. W., Wichmann, S., Brown, C. H., Velupillai, V., Müller, A., & Bakker, D. (2008). Advances in automated language classification. Quantitative Investigations In Theoretical Linguistics (QITL3), 40.
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