TY - JOUR
T1 - Modelling distances between genetically related languages using an extended weighted Levenshtein distance
AU - Palunčić, Filip
AU - Ferreira, Hendrik C.
AU - Swart, Theo G.
AU - Clarke, Willem A.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This article proposes the use of an extended weighted Levenshtein distance to model the time depth between parent and direct descendant languages and also the dialectal separation between sibling languages. The parent language is usually a proto-language, a hypothetical reconstructed language, whose precise date is usually conjectural. Phonology is used as an indicator of language difference, which is modelled by means of an extended weighted Levenshtein distance. This idea is applied specifically to the Iranian language family.
AB - This article proposes the use of an extended weighted Levenshtein distance to model the time depth between parent and direct descendant languages and also the dialectal separation between sibling languages. The parent language is usually a proto-language, a hypothetical reconstructed language, whose precise date is usually conjectural. Phonology is used as an indicator of language difference, which is modelled by means of an extended weighted Levenshtein distance. This idea is applied specifically to the Iranian language family.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=74849136112&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2989/SALALS.2009.27.4.2.1022
DO - 10.2989/SALALS.2009.27.4.2.1022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:74849136112
SN - 1607-3614
VL - 27
SP - 381
EP - 389
JO - Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
JF - Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
IS - 4
ER -