LEADER 02192nam 22004333a 450 001 9910367571103321 005 20211214195612.0 010 $a3-96110-143-4 024 7 $a10.5281/zenodo.3247415 035 $a(CKB)4100000010106035 035 $a(OAPEN)1006731 035 $a(ScCtBLL)56fc551b-3683-4ead-b386-ca765de1b00c 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37952 035 $a(PPN)243699654 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010106035 100 $a20211214i20192020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aInformation-theoretic causal inference of lexical flow$fJohannes Dellert 210 $aBerlin$cLanguage Science Press$d2019 210 1$aBerlin :$cLanguage Science Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 225 1 $aLanguage Variation 311 $a3-96110-144-2 330 $aThis volume seeks to infer large phylogenetic networks from phonetically encoded lexical data and contribute in this way to the historical study of language varieties. The technical step that enables progress in this case is the use of causal inference algorithms. Sample sets of words from language varieties are preprocessed into automatically inferred cognate sets, and then modeled as information-theoretic variables based on an intuitive measure of cognate overlap. Causal inference is then applied to these variables in order to determine the existence and direction of influence among the varieties. The directed arcs in the resulting graph structures can be interpreted as reflecting the existence and directionality of lexical flow, a unified model which subsumes inheritance and borrowing as the two main ways of transmission that shape the basic lexicon of languages. 410 $aLanguage Variation 606 $aLinguistics$2bicssc 610 $aLinguistics 615 7$aLinguistics 700 $aDellert$b Johannes$0916718 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910367571103321 996 $aInformation-theoretic causal inference of lexical flow$92055171 997 $aUNINA