The past decades have seen substantial growth in digital data on the world's languages. At
the same time, the demand for cross-linguistic datasets has been increasing, as witnessed …

The history of the language families in Lowland South America remains an understudied
area of historical linguistics. Panoan and Tacanan, two language families from this area …

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

Lexical borrowing, the transfer of words from one language to another, is one of the most
frequent processes in language evolution. In order to detect borrowings, linguists make use …

While analysing lexical data of Western Kho-Bwa languages of the Sino-Tibetan or Trans-
Himalayan family with the help of a computer-assisted approach for historical language …

The exploration of distant language relationships reaching back to the Neolithic age remains
very demanding and is often perceived as controversial. Over the last two decades …

Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been
few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets. Moreover, none …

This research explores the effects of computer-aided education (CAE) on the education of
folk cultural products. Folklore, encompassing tangible and intangible cultural artifacts, holds …

As a high and new technology, computer aided technology based on virtual reality has been
widely used in science and technology, medical treatment, national defense and military, art …

Compounding and derivation are frequent in many language families. As a consequence,
words in different languages are often only partially cognate, sharing some but not all …