As one of the most specific, yet most diverse of human behaviors, language is shaped by
both genomic and extra-genomic evolution. Sharing methods and models between these …

Phonology and syntax represent two layers of sound combination central to language's
expressive power. Comparative animal studies represent one approach to understand the …

Language is one of the most fundamental defining features of the human being, and
scholars have been trying to capture its essentials for thousands of years. One way of doing …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

Linguistic typology aims to capture structural and semantic variation across the world's
languages. A large-scale typology could provide excellent guidance for multilingual Natural …

The central issue of Newmeyer's new book is at the very core of language typological
research: how are similarities and differences among languages to be described and how …

In this paper I argue for a property-driven approach to phonological typology. Rather than
seeking to classify or label languages, the central goal of phonological typology is to …

A pioneering book establishing the foundations for research into word-formation typology
and tendencies. It fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey …

On Achieving and Evaluating Language-Independence in NLP Page 1 Linguistic Issues in
Language Technology LiLT Submitted, October 2011 On Achieving and Evaluating …

An overview of Evolutionary Phonology 1.1. Explaining sound patterns Phonology is the
study of sound patterns of the world's languages. In all spoken languages, we find sound …