Fred Weerman


2019

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Modeling a Historical Variety of a Low-Resource Language: Language Contact Effects in the Verbal Cluster of Early-Modern Frisian
Jelke Bloem | Arjen Versloot | Fred Weerman
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change

Certain phenomena of interest to linguists mainly occur in low-resource languages, such as contact-induced language change. We show that it is possible to study contact-induced language change computationally in a historical variety of a low-resource language, Early-Modern Frisian, by creating a model using features that were established to be relevant in a closely related language, modern Dutch. This allows us to test two hypotheses on two types of language contact that may have taken place between Frisian and Dutch during this time. Our model shows that Frisian verb cluster word orders are associated with different context features than Dutch verb orders, supporting the ‘learned borrowing’ hypothesis.

2015

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An agent-based model of a historical word order change
Jelke Bloem | Arjen Versloot | Fred Weerman
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning

2014

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Applying automatically parsed corpora to the study of language variation
Jelke Bloem | Arjen Versloot | Fred Weerman
Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers