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SUMMARY:Statistical Acoustic-Phonetic Historical Linguistics: A short intr
 oduction - John Aston (University of Cambridge)\; John Coleman (University
  of Oxford)
DTSTART:20151112T140000Z
DTEND:20151112T143000Z
UID:TALK61735@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:26863
DESCRIPTION:For the last several years we have been working together\, dev
 eloping methods for modelling linguistic sound changes using acoustic repr
 esentations computed from sound recordings rather than text. In this way\,
  we aim to reconstruct the methods of comparative philology on quantitativ
 e\, acoustic foundations. In this talk\, we consider such questions as: Wh
 at would comparative and historical phonology be like if we worked with so
 und recordings instead of symbols? Can quantitative methods give insights 
 into language variation and change? Could even we “bring back to life”
  the sounds of languages from the past?\n\nWe hope that this highly interd
 isciplinary talk will interest Romance philologists and linguists\, classi
 cal philologists\, statisticians\, computational linguists\, phoneticians 
 and pretty much anyone with an interest in language history\, modelling et
 c.\n\n"Ancient Sounds project":http://www.sciculture.ac.uk/project/ancient
 -sounds-mixing-acoustic-phonetics-statistics-and-comparative-philology-to-
 bring-speech-back-from-the-past/
LOCATION:Queen's Building\, Emmanuel College
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