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Johann-Mattis List deposited Historical language comparison with LingPy and EDICTOR in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 4 years ago Historical language comparison for the purpose of identifying cognates and sound correspondences in multilingual wordlists which can later be used to infer phylogenetic trees can be conveniently carried out in a framework of computer-assisted language comparison (see http://calc.digling.org), using tools for automatic inference, like LingPy (http://lingpy.org, List and Forkel 2016, and tools for data annotation and curation, like EDICTOR (http://edictor.digling.org, List 2017. In this tutorial, we will guide the users through all important steps ranging from data preparation, via data curation, to data export.