Historical, comparative and typological linguistics form the cornerstone of our understanding of language evolution, diversity and structure. Historical linguistics examines how individual languages ...

Digital approaches applied to big data play an increasingly important role in the humanities. However, there is skepticism about the accuracy and potential of computational methods for historical ...

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Researchers have tested the capacity of different computational approaches to detect cognates with striking success rates: The best-performing method could detect word relationships with an accuracy ...