[Corpora-List] Phonetic corpora as the basis for distances

[Linas Vepstas]

2008/8/4 Yuri, Yuliana, Alina< Ludmila Tambovtseva <yutamb at mail.ru>:
> Dear Corpora colleagues, since I receive no feed back from anybody, I
> thought that it was not published in the list:

I saw the message the first time. It was fascinating to read,
but I do not know where one could publish such results.

--linas

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> on the basis of our phonetic corpora we measured the
> phonological distances between Ainu and the other 158 languages in our
> corpora.
> Ainu is an isolated language of Japan. It is not similar to Japanese. The
> closest distance happens to be 5.451 to an American Indian language Quechua.
> The next closest language is Inga 7.388 which is also an American Indian
> language. The mean distance to Finno-Ugric languages -16.95; to Samoyedic -
> 16.31; to Turkic- 18.08; to Mongolian - 23.66; to Chookchi and other
> Paleo-Asiatic languages - 15.41, etc. The results are published in: Yuri
> Tambovtsev. The phono-typological distances between Ainu and the other world
> languages as a clue for closeness of languages. - In: Asian and African
> studies,
> Volume 17, #1, 2008, p.40-62. Our typological distances make us believe that
> the forefathers of Ainu moved to America in the prehistorical times.
>  Phonological features are the result of the articulation basis which is
> preserved
>  by the people for a long time if not forever. I have prepared another long
>  article on the distances between the American Indian languages and
>  Siberian languages, but I do not know where to publish it. Can you advise
> me any
>  journal? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb at mail.ru Remain
> yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia.
>
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