Publication: A probabilistic assessment of the Indo-Aryan Inner–Outer Hypothesis
A probabilistic assessment of the Indo-Aryan Inner–Outer Hypothesis
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Cathcart, C. A. (2020). A probabilistic assessment of the Indo-Aryan Inner–Outer Hypothesis. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 10(1), 42–86. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.18038.cat
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This paper uses a novel data-driven probabilistic approach to address the century-old Inner-Outer hypothesis of Indo-Aryan. I develop a Bayesian hierarchical mixed-membership model to assess the validity of this hypothesis using a large data set of automatically extracted sound changes operating between Old Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan speech varieties. I employ different prior distributions in order to model sound change, one of which, the Logistic Normal distribution, has not received much attention in linguistics outside of Nat
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Cathcart, C. A. (2020). A probabilistic assessment of the Indo-Aryan Inner–Outer Hypothesis. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 10(1), 42–86. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.18038.cat
