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dc.contributor.author | Heeringa, Wilbert | en |
dc.contributor.author | Gooskens, Charlotte | en |
dc.contributor.author | van Heuven, Vincent J. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-11T22:44:34Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-09-11T22:44:34Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023-05 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Lingua, v.287, p. 1-23 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1872-6135 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0024-3841 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/56009 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Languages differ along multiple dimensions (lexis, phonology, morphology, syntax). Related languages descend from a common ancestor language but have diverged over time. This paper asks whether languages diverge equally along all dimensions, and, to the extent that they do not, which dimension reflects the traditional language family tree best. We computed measures of (i) lexical distance (ii) phonetic distance, and (iii) syntactic distance. The measures were computed on all words and sentences extracted from a corpus of translations of four relatively short English texts into another four Germanic languages (Danish, Dutch, German, Swedish), five Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish) and six Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Slovakian, Slovenian). We examined the correlation structure of the distances for all pairs of Germanic (10), Romance (10) and Slavic (15) languages (i.e., within-family comparisons only). The results indicate that the linguistic dimensions are generally corre-lated (weakly but significantly), and that the correlations are stronger for pairs within families than when all 35 pairs are examined together. Cladistic family trees correlate best with the lexical distance (0.851 < <i>r</i> < 0.887). This confirms that the genealogical language trees are predominantly based on lexical rather than phonetic or syntactic considerations.</p> | en |
dc.language | en | en |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Lingua | en |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.title | Comparing Germanic, Romance and Slavic: Relationships among linguistic distances | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103512 | en |
dcterms.accessRights | UNE Green | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Wilbert | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Charlotte | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Vincent J. | en |
local.profile.school | School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences | en |
local.profile.email | cgoosken@une.edu.au | en |
local.output.category | C1 | en |
local.record.place | au | en |
local.record.institution | University of New England | en |
local.publisher.place | The Netherlands | en |
local.identifier.runningnumber | 103512 | en |
local.format.startpage | 1 | en |
local.format.endpage | 23 | en |
local.peerreviewed | Yes | en |
local.identifier.volume | 287 | en |
local.title.subtitle | Relationships among linguistic distances | en |
local.access.fulltext | Yes | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Heeringa | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Gooskens | en |
local.contributor.lastname | van Heuven | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:cgoosken | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.identifier.unepublicationid | une:1959.11/56009 | en |
local.date.onlineversion | 2023-03-15 | - |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
local.title.maintitle | Comparing Germanic, Romance and Slavic | en |
local.relation.fundingsourcenote | The data collection underlying this study was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), under grant number 360–70-430 (principal investigators: Charlotte Gooskens and Vincent van Heuven). | en |
local.output.categorydescription | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | en |
local.search.author | Heeringa, Wilbert | en |
local.search.author | Gooskens, Charlotte | en |
local.search.author | van Heuven, Vincent J. | en |
local.open.fileurl | https://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/8fb91eb1-fc9a-41e9-a15d-e1b84a2dc7f6 | en |
local.uneassociation | Yes | en |
local.atsiresearch | No | en |
local.sensitive.cultural | No | en |
local.year.available | 2023 | en |
local.year.published | 2023 | en |
local.fileurl.open | https://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/8fb91eb1-fc9a-41e9-a15d-e1b84a2dc7f6 | en |
local.fileurl.openpublished | https://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/8fb91eb1-fc9a-41e9-a15d-e1b84a2dc7f6 | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 470304 Comparative language studies | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 470406 Historical, comparative and typological linguistics | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 470319 Other European languages | en |
local.subject.seo2020 | 130202 Languages and linguistics | en |
local.subject.seo2020 | 130201 Communication across languages and culture | en |
local.profile.affiliationtype | External Affiliation | en |
local.profile.affiliationtype | UNE Affiliation | en |
local.profile.affiliationtype | External Affiliation | en |
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