%0 Journal Article
%A List, Johann-Mattis
%A Forkel, Robert
%+ Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Automated identification of borrowings in multilingual wordlists : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-13BA-0
%R 10.12688/openreseurope.13843.2
%7 2021-08
%D 2021
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets. Moreover, none of the solutions which have been proposed so far identify borrowings across multiple languages. This study proposes a new method for the task and tests it on a newly compiled large comparative dataset of 48 South-East Asian languages from Southern China. The method yields very promising results, while it is conceptually straightforward and easy to apply. This makes the approach a perfect candidate for computer-assisted exploratory studies on lexical borrowing in contact areas.
%J Open Research Europe
%V 1
%] 79
%I The European Commission
%@ 2732-5121