Program
Location: Lilla hörsalen, Humanisten, University of Gothenburg (Renströmsgatan 6: map)
Monday, 24th October
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8.30–9.30 |
Registration |
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9.30–9.45 |
Welcome |
Margareta Hallberg (Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Gothenburg) |
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9.45–10.00 |
Introduction |
Lars Borin |
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10.00–10.40 |
Aggregate pronunciation distances indicate similar provenance |
John Nerbonne |
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10.40–11.05 |
Pattern loss in dialectometry |
Jack Grieve |
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11.05–11.30 |
Similarity and difference between rGyalthang Tibetan and Cone Tibetan – How to discuss dialectal proximity in Tibetan dialectology |
Hiroyuki Suzuki |
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11.30–11.55 |
Degrees of semantic control in measuring lexical distances |
Kris Heylen and Tom Ruette |
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11.55–13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30–13.55
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Inducing a measure of phonetic similarity from dialect variation |
Martijn Wieling, Eliza Margaretha and John Nerbonne |
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13.55–14.20 |
Carving West Himalayish by its joints: Internal subgrouping of Tibeto-Kinnauri |
Anju Saxena and Lars Borin |
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14.20–14.45 |
Semantically restricted wordlists: Classifying Athapaskan languages with semantic and phonetic data |
Conor Snoek |
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14.45–15.10 |
Distance-based phylogenetic inference algorithms in the subgrouping of Dravidian languages |
Taraka Rama and Sudheer Kolachina |
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15.10–16.00 |
Coffee |
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16.00–16.40 |
Manual vs. automated lexicostatistics: Comparing cognate percentages and ASJP similarity |
Søren Wichmann and Eric Holman |
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16.40–17.05 |
Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings |
Jelena Prokić and Steven Moran |
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17.05–17.30 |
Phylogenetic trees vs. cluster maps for detecting linguistic similarities |
Armin Buch, David Erschler and Gerhard Jäger |
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Tuesday, 25th October
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10.00–10.40 |
Comparing linguistic systems of categorization |
William McGregor |
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10.40–11.05 |
An empirically-based measure of linguistic distance |
Frans van der Slik, Roeland van Hout and Job Schepens |
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11.05–11.30 |
How aberrant are divergent IE subgroups? |
Folke Josephson |
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11.30–11.55 |
The methodology of using standardized database information (e.g., GIS, Neighbournet) in the reconstruction of ethnolinguistic prehistory: a case in Amazonia |
Gerd Carling, Love Eriksen, Alf Hornborg, Arthur Holmer and Junichi Toyota |
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11.55–13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30–14.10 |
Word similarity, cognation, and translational equivalence |
Greg Kondrak |
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14.10–14.35 |
Cross-language distributions of high frequency and phonetically similar cognates |
Job Schepens, Ton Dijkstra, Franc Grootjen, Walter van Heuven and Frans van der Slik |
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14.35–15.00 |
Semantic typologies by means of network analysis of bilingual dictionaries |
Ineta Sejane and Steffen Eger |
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15.00–15.30 |
Coffee |
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15.30–16.10 |
Beyond the black box: A plea for formal models of language change |
Michael Cysouw |
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16.10–16.35 |
Dependency-sensitive typological distance |
Harald Hammarström and Loretta O’Connor |
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16.35–17.00 |
Measuring the similarity of languages in their inner form in parallel texts (in general and with particular reference to negation) |
Bernhard Wälchli |
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17.00–17.40 |
Information-theoretic modeling of etymological sound change |
Hannes Wettig and Roman Yangarber |
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17.40 |
Closing |
Anju Saxena |
