Chapter Dependency-sensitive typological distance

• 1. Verfasser: Hammarström, Harald (auth)
• Weitere Verfasser: O'Connor, Loretta (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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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...