The early 19th-century linguist Franz Bopp was the first to compare Greekrmanic languages developed from a common ancestor.
“The difference between that and Bouchard-Côté's program-Côté fed words from 637 Austronesian languages (spoken in Indonesia) into the new algorithm,and the system came up with a list of what the ancestor words of all those languages would have sounded like.In more than 85 percent of cases,the automated reconstruction came within one character of the ancestor word commonly accepted as true by linguists.
The algorithm won't replace trained human linguists,but could speed up language analysis.
Using a computer to do large-scale reconstruction offers another advantage.Bouchard-Côté says big data sets,you can really start finding regularities...You might find that certain sounds are more likely to change than others.”
So Bouchard-Côté's team tested the “functional load hypothesis( which says that sounds that are more important for two clearly different words are less likely to change over time.A formal test of this hypothesis in 1967 looked at four languages; Bouchard-Côté's algorithm looked at 637.
e numbers of protolanguages,” Bouchard-Côté and his coauthors write in the new study.
-Côté saysords that show you when the wheel was invented.”
【语篇导读】 本文是一篇说明文主要向读者介绍了一种能够辅助语言学研究者的计算机程序它能够再现一些已经消失的古代语言的语音信息从而加快语言分析的速度和效率。
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