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dans le cadre du Séminaire du CRLAO sur les</span></div>
<div class style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;" align="center"><b class><span class style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">« Recherches actuelles en linguistique»</span></b></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_4956" class style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;" align="center"><span class style="font-family:'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
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<div class style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;" align="center"><span class style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant:small-caps;">DFG
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<div class style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b class><span class style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-variant:small-caps;color:rgb(51,102,255);" lang="EN-US">«</span></b><b class><span class style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,102,255);" lang="EN-US">Computer-Assisted Language Comparison
and its Application to Chinese Dialectology</span></b><b class><span class style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(51,102,255);">»</span></b></div>
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<div class style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;" align="center"><b class><span class style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,153);">le mercredi 4 février 2015</span></b><span class style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"></span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5064" class style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;" align="left"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5065" class style="font-family:'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-US">During the last two decades,
historical linguistics has experienced a quantitative turn, reflected in
multiple publications on such diverse topics as phonetic alignment, automatic
cognate detection, and phylogenetic reconstruction. Unfortunately, the new
methods have created a gap between the “new and innovative” quantitative
methods and the traditional approaches which date back to the beginning of the
19<sup class>th</sup> century: While traditional linguists complain about a lack of <i class>quality</i>
in computational approaches, computational linguists complain about a lack of <i class>structure</i>
in traditional approaches. This also holds for Chinese linguistics and Chinese
dialectology, where quantitative approaches haven an even longer tradition, dating
back at least to the 1960s. </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5067" class style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;text-indent:35.4pt;" align="left"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5066" class style="font-family:'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-US">My research project on “Vertical and lateral aspects of Chinese dialect
history”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) has two major goals:
Firstly, it proposes an interdisciplinary, data-driven approach to Chinese
dialectology, where – based on cooperation with biologists and sinologists –
quantitative methods</span><span class style="font-family:'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-US"> </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5070" class style="font-family:'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-US">originally designed to study lateral gene
transfer in evolutionary biology are used to explore</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5069" class style="font-family:'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-US"> </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5068" class style="font-family:'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-US">vertical (inheritance-related) and lateral (contact-related) aspects of
Chinese dialect history. Secondly, the project aims to bridge the gap between
traditional and quantitative approaches in historical linguistics by
establishing a new framework of “computer-assisted language comparison” which develops
interactive interfaces which help to compensate both the lack of <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5071" class>structure</i>
in traditional, and the lack of <i class>quality</i> in quantitative historical
linguistics.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5073" class style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;text-indent:35.4pt;" align="left"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5072" class style="font-family:'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-US">In this talk, I will briefly summarize the current state of the art for
quantitative methods in historical linguistics, pointing out their specific prospects
and challenges. I will then introduce the major ideas behind the framework of
“computer-assisted language comparison” and give some examples on how it can be
applied in the field of Chinese dialectology and Chinese dialect history.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5077" class style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';">Les séminaires du CRLAO sont organisés par Hilary Chappell
(CRLAO-EHESS) <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5131" class style="color:rgb(26,26,26);">commenceront le 14 janvier 2015 et se
dérouleront les mercredis du 16h à 18h jusqu’en fin juin.</span><b class><span class style="color:rgb(204,0,0);"> </span></b>Pour toute information complémentaire,
euillez contacter Hilary Chappell sur </span><span class><span class style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><a class href="mailto:hmchappell@gmail.com" target="_blank">hmchappell@gmail.com</a></span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422525457572_5132" class style="font-size:9pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';"> ou au CRLAO, 131 bd St
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