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dc.contributor.authorHeeringa, Wilberten
dc.contributor.authorGooskens, Charlotteen
dc.contributor.authorvan Heuven, Vincent J.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-11T22:44:34Z-
dc.date.available2023-09-11T22:44:34Z-
dc.date.issued2023-05-
dc.identifier.citationLingua, v.287, p. 1-23en
dc.identifier.issn1872-6135en
dc.identifier.issn0024-3841en
dc.identifier.urihttps://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.languageenen
dc.publisherElsevier BVen
dc.relation.ispartofLinguaen
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleComparing Germanic, Romance and Slavic: Relationships among linguistic distancesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103512en
dcterms.accessRightsUNE Greenen
local.contributor.firstnameWilberten
local.contributor.firstnameCharlotteen
local.contributor.firstnameVincent J.en
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailcgoosken@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.publisher.placeThe Netherlandsen
local.identifier.runningnumber103512en
local.format.startpage1en
local.format.endpage23en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume287en
local.title.subtitleRelationships among linguistic distancesen
local.access.fulltextYesen
local.contributor.lastnameHeeringaen
local.contributor.lastnameGooskensen
local.contributor.lastnamevan Heuvenen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:cgooskenen
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:1959.11/56009en
local.date.onlineversion2023-03-15-
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleComparing Germanic, Romance and Slavicen
local.relation.fundingsourcenoteThe 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.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorHeeringa, Wilberten
local.search.authorGooskens, Charlotteen
local.search.authorvan Heuven, Vincent J.en
local.open.fileurlhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/8fb91eb1-fc9a-41e9-a15d-e1b84a2dc7f6en
local.uneassociationYesen
local.atsiresearchNoen
local.sensitive.culturalNoen
local.year.available2023en
local.year.published2023en
local.fileurl.openhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/8fb91eb1-fc9a-41e9-a15d-e1b84a2dc7f6en
local.fileurl.openpublishedhttps://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/8fb91eb1-fc9a-41e9-a15d-e1b84a2dc7f6en
local.subject.for2020470304 Comparative language studiesen
local.subject.for2020470406 Historical, comparative and typological linguisticsen
local.subject.for2020470319 Other European languagesen
local.subject.seo2020130202 Languages and linguisticsen
local.subject.seo2020130201 Communication across languages and cultureen
local.profile.affiliationtypeExternal Affiliationen
local.profile.affiliationtypeUNE Affiliationen
local.profile.affiliationtypeExternal Affiliationen
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