Chapter Languages with longer words have more lexical change

• 1. Verfasser: Wichmann, Søren (auth)
• Weitere Verfasser: Holman, Eric W. (auth), Saxena, Anju (Herausgegeben von), Borin, Lars (Herausgegeben von)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Schlagworte: linguistics; Linguistic differences
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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...