Linguistics References

  • University of Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary – Comprehensive electronic lexicon of Sumerian, the oldest written language.
  • Pagel et al., 2013Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia (PNAS).
  • Babaev 2009Once again on the comparison of personal pronouns in proto-languages.
  • Blasi et al. 2016Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages (PNAS). Found systematic sound-meaning links in ~4,000 languages, including R → round.
  • LA Times (2016)In world's languages, scientists discover shared links between sound and meaning.
  • Beaufils 2021Stochastic approach to worldwide language classification: the signals and the noise towards long-range exploration. Explores computational methods for distant language relationships using sound correspondences.