Chapter Dependency-sensitive typological distance

• Egile nagusia: Hammarström, Harald (auth)
• Beste egile batzuk: O'Connor, Loretta (auth), Saxena, Anju (Argitaratzailea), Borin, Lars (Argitaratzailea)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Gaiak: linguistics; linguistic differences
• Sarrera elektronikoa: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

In this paper, we will develop two kinds of dependency-sensitive distance metrics. The first captures the idea that if it can be shown that one feature can be (partly) predicted by another, then the predictable feature should be (partly) "discounted". This strategy tackles dependencies bet...