Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change
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...
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2013
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