The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the world's largest and most prominent families,
spoken by nearly 1.4 billion people. Despite the importance of the Sino-Tibetan languages …

Advances in computer-assisted linguistic research have been greatly influential in reshaping
linguistic research. With the increasing availability of interconnected datasets created and …

The amount of data from languages spoken all over the world is rapidly increasing.
Traditional manual methods in historical linguistics need to face the challenges brought by …

Background For a long time biologists and linguists have been noticing surprising
similarities between the evolution of life forms and languages. Most of the proposed …

Contrary to what non-practitioners might expect, the systems of phonetic notation used by
linguists are highly idiosyncratic. Not only do various linguistic subfields disagree on the …

Abstract The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (CLICS), has established a
computer-assisted framework for the interactive representation of cross-linguistic …

With increasing amounts of digitally available data from all over the world, manual
annotation of cognates in multi-lingual word lists becomes more and more time-consuming …

There have been a number of important efforts to map out the languages of Iran, but until
now no language atlas, or even a comprehensive and detailed country-level language map …

We evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms for automatic cognate detection
by comparing how useful automatically inferred cognates are for the task of phylogenetic …

Sound correspondence patterns form the basis of cognate detection and phonological
reconstruction in historical language comparison. Methods for the automatic inference of …