Quantitative comparative linguistics | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-23

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00:00:09 1 History
00:03:52 1.1 Studied language families
00:04:50 2 Background
00:07:19 3 Types of trees and networks
00:10:42 4 Language change
00:11:45 5 Analysis input
00:11:54 5.1 Data
00:13:26 5.2 Constraints
00:13:45 6 Databases
00:15:16 6.1 Word lists
00:16:18 6.2 Morphological features
00:16:46 6.3 Typological features
00:17:17 7 Probabilistic models
00:18:12 7.1 Effects of chance
00:19:08 8 Detection of borrowing
00:19:44 9 Split dating
00:20:55 10 Types of analysis
00:21:28 10.1 Character based models
00:21:38 10.1.1 Maximum parsimony and maximum compatibility
00:23:45 10.1.2 Maximum likelihood and Bayesian analysis
00:24:43 10.1.3 Perfect Phylogenetic Networks
00:25:10 10.1.4 Gray and Atkinson's method
00:26:39 10.1.5 Nicholls and Gray's method
00:27:41 10.2 Distance based models
00:28:21 10.2.1 UPGMA
00:28:53 10.2.2 Split Decomposition
00:29:42 10.2.3 Neighbor joining
00:30:17 10.2.4 Neighbor-net
00:30:52 10.2.5 Network
00:31:25 10.2.6 ASP
00:32:00 10.2.7 Fitch/Kitch
00:32:28 10.2.8 Separation level method
00:33:10 10.2.9 Fast convergence methods
00:33:50 10.3 Resemblance based models
00:34:30 10.3.1 Computerised mass comparison
00:35:17 10.3.2 Nichol's method
00:35:45 10.3.3 ASJP
00:37:04 10.3.4 Serva and Petroni's method
00:37:35 10.4 Phonetic evaluation methods
00:38:28 11 Evaluation of methods
00:38:38 11.1 Metrics
00:40:25 11.2 Comparison with previous analyses
00:41:16 11.3 Use of simulations
00:41:50 11.4 Sensitivity analysis
00:42:20 12 Studies comparing methods
00:47:22 13 Choosing the best model
00:48:13 14 See also
00:48:30 15 Notes
00:48:39 16 Bibliography



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Quantitative comparative linguistics is the use of quantitative analysis as applied to comparative linguistics.