Managing Historical Linguistic Data for Computational Phylogenetics and Computer-Assisted Language Comparison

Authors:

Tiago Tresoldi , Christoph Rzymski , Robert Forkel , Simon J. Greenhill , Johann-Mattis List , Russell D. Gray

Citation:

Tresoldi T, Rzymski C, Forkel R, Greenhill SJ, List JM, & Gray R. 2022. Managing historical linguistic data for computational phylogenetics and computer-assisted language comparison. In Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, & Lauren B. Collister (Eds). Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management.

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Published: 1 January, 2022.

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Abstract:

Computational phylogenetics is a relatively recent branch of historical linguistics that uses quantitative techniques to investigate the history of related languages. As the classical comparative method is less explicit on the techniques for constructing phylogenies of language families (see discussion in Jacques & List 2019), such a new approach can complement traditional techniques for sub-grouping based on shared innovations (Ross & Durie 1996).