Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change

• Kaituhi matua: Wichmann, Søren (auth)
• Ētahi atu kaituhi: Holman, Eric W. (auth), Saxena, Anju (Editor), Borin, Lars (Editor)
• Hōputu: Tāhiko Wāhanga pukapuka
• Reo: Ingarihi
• I whakaputaina: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Ngā marau: linguistics; Linguistic differences
• Urunga tuihono: 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...