Typology: The Space of Languages (1/25/2022)
Lecture: (by Alan Black)
- How to quantify similarity between languages
- Language families and genealogical similarity
- Linguistic typology and typological similarity
- WALS and other typological databases
- Typology Prediction / Typology-based language transfer (Lin et al.)
Language in 10: Korean
Slides: Typology Slides
Discussion:
First, read at least Section 1-3 of Ponti et al. 2019. During the discussion we will ask "What are some unique typological features of a language that you know, regarding phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics?"
References:
- Reference: Modeling Language Variation and Universals: A Survey on Typological Linguistics for Natural Language Processing (Ponti et al. 2019)
- Reference: Choosing Transfer Languages for Cross-Lingual Learning (Lin et al. 2019)