Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change

• Main Author: Wichmann, Søren (auth)
• Other Authors: Holman, Eric W. (auth), Saxena, Anju (Editor), Borin, Lars (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Subjects: linguistics; Linguistic differences
• Online Access: 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...