Abstract
Several methods for determining a numerical distance between languages have been proposed in the literature. In this thesis I implement one of them, the ALINE distance, and develop a methodology for comparing its results with other language distance metrics. I then compare it with a leading distance metric, the LDND distance, proposed by the ASJP project.
Degree
MA
College and Department
Humanities; Linguistics and English Language
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Huff, Paul A., "PyAline: Automatically Growing Language Family Trees Using the ALINE Distance" (2010). Theses and Dissertations. 2389.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2389
Date Submitted
2010-11-22
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd4066
Keywords
language phylogenies, automatic language classification
Language
English