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Empirical basis for the limit of the comparative method?
I've heard lots of different numbers thrown around in the literature to the 'upper bound' of how far back in time the comparative method can go. The most pessimistic numbers hover around 7,000 years ...
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Has anyone developed a complete, hierarchical ontology of “language”?
If we consider whatever the phenomenon of “language” is, what might be the most immediate way of subdividing it into types?
For example, it could be broken into specific instances of languages, vs. ...
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Quantitative methodology for contrastive pragmatics in corpus-based settings
I am interested in literature regarding methodology that could be relevant for quantitative research into differences in pragmatic meaning between two 'equivalent' concepts in two languages (in other ...
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elicit judgment: source revealed?
I'd like to know whether it's okay to reveal the identity of a person in advance when having others judge his or her sentences for grammaticality. Will that affect the reliability of the judgments? If ...
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Have any linguists studied/described a language that was totally foreign to them?
Have any linguists studied/described a language that was totally foreign to them? ie the linguist has totally no idea of what the utterances and writing of a language mean.
How did they do it - ...
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Is there a software solution to create sets of stimuli for a listening experiment?
I have a set of recordings of speakers of two different languages pronouncing certain sounds. Specifically, I have recordings of 6 speakers of language A, and 6 speakers of language B, 3 male and 3 ...
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Is there a method for teaching through etymology/cognates?
Is there an existing method, (published in a book/in an article), for teaching languages with cognates and/or etymology?
I'm primarily interested in Indo-European family, but any of such teaching ...
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Statistical Methods in Etymology
Etymologists tend to categorize the probability of theories under formulaic labels. These range from "uncertain" over "tentative" or "not convincing" to "established", "accepted" or "nonsense". P ...
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What statistical tests can be used to check for lexicalisation effects in a judgement task?
In a run-of-the-mill judgement rating task where participants have to rate sentences on a Likert scale (e.g. 1 to 6) and that is constructed using a Latin square design, what statistical tests can be ...
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Useful software and/or "manual" method for data analysis in a stylistic study of transitivity (SFL)
What would be a useful software and/or systematic "manual" method for data analysis in a study of transitivity (Systemic Functional Linguistics) that would like to incorporate some kind of statistics ...
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Where to start with deciphering this language? [closed]
I do apologize if this question has been asked before or has a better place on a different part of the StackExchange network, but I've run out of places to ask this.
While playing through one of my ...
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When analyzing a set of corpora, are there any standard practices with regard to the classification of gerunds?
In the article, "How Many Words Do You Need to Know in Spanish (or any other foreign language)? And WHICH Words Should You Be Learning?" I came upon the following:
“Assume that a language learner is ...
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Can linguistics be proven?
Is there a standard of proof in linguistics like there is in other sciences? How do linguists determine if something is true?
I ask because grammarians disagree on a lot of things. It's to the point ...
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Where does the reported number of native speakers in Ethnologue come from?
According to Ethnologue's page regarding "Chinese, Mandarin", the population of speakers of Standard Chinese is
889,000,000 in China (2013), increasing. 70% of Chinese language users speak a ...
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Should I use the Log-Likelihood (G2) test to compare word frequency across corpora?
I need to compare the frequency of occurrence of a word in two corpora.
Take for example the word fail which occurs 311 times in a corpus containing language from the sciences (2 million tokens) and ...
