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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures
xiv
List of Tables
xvii
1
How do Linguists Classify Languages?
1
1.1
Classification and Language Families
1
1. 2
The Comparative Method
5
1. 2.1
An Outline of the Method
5
1. 2. 2
Validating the Comparative Method
10
1. 2. 3
Some Limitations of the Comparative Method
14
1. 3
Mass Comparison
19
1.4
Why Historical Linguists Need Quantitative Methods
26
2
Lexicostatistics
31
2.1
Comparing Like with Like
31
2. 2
Classical Lexicostatistics
33
2. 3
Objections to Lexicostatistics
40
2. 4
Testing Methods
45
3
Tree-based Quantitative Approaches: Computational Cladistics
51
3.1
Probability-based Approaches
51
3.1.1
Real and Apparent Patterns
51
3.1. 2
Probability for Beginners
54
3.1. 3
Probability and Language Comparison
56
3.1. 3.1
Setting the Scene
56
3.1. 3. 2
Initial Consonant Comparison and
χ2
(Chi-Square) Calculations
58
3.1. 3. 3
The Binomial Approach to Meaning-List
Comparisons
61
3.1. 3. 4
The Binomial Approach and Mass
Comparison
62
3.1. 3. 5
Problems with the Binomial Approach
65
3.1, 3.6
More Sensitive Statistical Tests—Permutation
Testing
66
XU
CONTENTS
3.2
Computeriang the Comparative Method
68
3.2.
Ï
introducing Computational Ciadistics
68
3.2.2
Computational Ctedistics and Contact 77
4
Tree-based
Quantitative
Approaches: Sublists
89
4.1
Exduding Lexical Sorrowing
8S>
4.2
identifying and Using Lexical Sorrowings
92
4. 3
An
Initiai
Test: Optima} list Length
94
4,4
Subdividing Meaning Lists
96
4.4.7
The Dyen, Kraskal, and Black
(1992)
Database
96
4.4. 2
Tree-drawing and
Tree-sefection
Programs: Verifying
What We Know...
98
4.4.3 ...
and Finding Something New
Î
03
4.4.4
Testing
ine
Hypothesis
oř
Sorrowing
Π
Î
4.4.4.
Î
Computer Simuiations
11
í
4. 4.4.2
Erroneous Codings in the Database
î î
8
5
Correlations Between Genetic and linguistic Data
Π
9
5.1
The New Synthesis
119
5. 2
Correlations between Genetics and Linguistics:
Cautions and Caveats
122
5, 3
Evidence for Correlations
126
5.3.1
Genetic Evidence
ano Sampling
126
5.3.2
Four Specific Studies
128
5. 3. 3
The Contribution of Contact
131
5. 4
Looking Forward
136
6
Climbing Down from the Trees: Network Models
139
6.1
Network Representations in Biology
1
39
6.1.1
Problems with Trees
139
6.1. 2
Networks in Genetics 14Q
6.1.3
Split Decomposition
144
6.2
Applying Network to Linguistic Data
î
45
6.2.1
Comparing linguistic and Biological Data
145
6.2.2
Network and Borrowing;
Sirnuîated
Data
147
6.2. 3
Network and Borrowing: Real Data
149
CONTENTS
ХШ
6. 3
Distance-based Network Methods
155
6.3.1
Distance-based
Versus
Character-based Approaches
155
6. 3. 2
Split Decomposition and Distance Data
157
6. 3. 3
Distance-based Methods and Linguistic Data
158
6. 3.4
Applying NeighbourNet Beyond Indo-European
160
6.4
The Uses of Computational and Quantitative Methods
173
7
Dating
177
7.1
Lexicostatistics and Glottochronology
177
7.1.1
Troublesome Terms
177
7.1. 2
Glottochronology: Practice and Problems
179
7. 2
Dating and Time Depth in Linguistics and Biology
185
7. 3
Dating Brought Up to Date
189
7.4
General Problems for Dating
199
8
Quantitative Methods Beyond the Lexicon
205
8.1
Today the Lexicon, Tomorrow.
.. 205
8. 2
Key Questions for Phonetic Comparison
208
8. 3
Nerbonne and Heeringa s Approach to Phonetic Similarity
210
8.4
Heggarty (forthcoming); Heggarty, McMahon, and
McMahon (forthcoming)
214
8.5
Phonetic Similarity and Dialect Comparison for English
224
8.6
Summing Up
237
References
241
Index
255
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