Creating a comparative dictionary of Totonac-Tepehua

Authors:
Grzegorz Kondrak;David Beck;Philip Dilts
Affiliations:
University of Alberta;University of Alberta;University of Alberta
Venue:
SigMorPhon '07 Proceedings of Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We apply algorithms for the identification of cognates and recurrent sound correspondences proposed by Kondrak (2002) to the Totonac-Tepehua family of indigenous languages in Mexico. We show that by combining expert linguistic knowledge with computational analysis, it is possible to quickly identify a large number of cognate sets within the family. Our objective is to provide tools for rapid construction of comparative dictionaries for relatively unfamiliar language families.