Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change

• 第一著者: Wichmann, Søren (auth)
• その他の著者: Holman, Eric W. (auth), Saxena, Anju (編集者), Borin, Lars (編集者)
• フォーマット: 電子媒体 図書の章
• 言語: 英語
• 出版事項: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• 主題: linguistics; Linguistic differences
• オンライン･アクセス: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The findings to be presented in this paper were not anticipated, but came about as an unexpected result of looking at how the application of a version of the Levenshtein distance to word lists compares with cognate counting. We were interested in the degree to which the two correlate. The results of...