Computational Methods for Linguistic Typology - Module 1 - Why do we want to use computers?
Channel: Mae Carroll
Date: 2021-12-11

Computational Methods for Linguistic Typology - Module 1: Overview

This masterclass will show how computational methods can be used to amplify the efforts of multivariate linguistic typology to answer core CoEDL questions of how and why languages differ. 
The course will take us through the typological data cycle and show how we can use computational methods to collect, manage, analyse and share typological data. We will see how current methods from data science allow us to increase the quantity and quality of our typological data as well as make it available to other researchers in online repositories. We will see how to build typologies using modern typological frameworks and how to develop these into explicit linguistic models in order in order to classify our data with precision, speed and detail.

The course will focus on the typology of morphological exponence but will be generalisable to any linguistic domain. 

It assumes no prior knowledge of programming.

Originally presented as part of the Australian Linguistic Society CoEDL Masterclasses 2021 

**Details from video**
Course materials can be found here: https://github.com/matthewjcarroll/CMLT

Phylogenetics with Language Data: J. Macklin-Cordes & E. Round LADAL: https://youtu.be/yJeQ6AGDLK0