Knowledge Commons | Mei-Shin Wu | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/meishinwu/activity/ Activity feed for Mei-Shin Wu. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:13:07 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c77abdf415f8118eb355a2ad635aa782 Mei-Shin Wu deposited Bayesian phylogenetics illuminate shallower relationships among Trans-Himalayan languages in the Tibet-Arunachal area https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1781122/ Mon, 09 May 2022 19:00:46 -0400 Kho-Bwa, Hrusish, Mishmic, Tani, and Tshangla are language clusters that have been recurrently proposed as subgroups of the Trans-Himalayan (also known as Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Tibetan) language family. Nonetheless, their internal classification, as well as the relation with each other and with other linguistic groups in the family, is hitherto…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e1dfd543c9bcc6d3c744cdea510719a Mei-Shin Wu deposited Annotating Cognates in Phylogenetic Studies of South-East Asian Languages [version 2] in the group Linguistics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1780939/ Sat, 07 May 2022 02:25:20 -0400 Compounding and derivation are frequent in many language families. As a consequence, words in different languages are often only partially cognate, sharing only a few but not all morphemes. While partial
cognates do not constitute a problem for the phonological reconstruction of individual morphemes, they
are problematic when it comes to…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3c082136fe032213960929b33e6de05 Mei-Shin Wu deposited Annotating Cognates in Phylogenetic Studies of South-East Asian Languages [version 2] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1780902/ Fri, 06 May 2022 17:31:06 -0400 Compounding and derivation are frequent in many language families. As a consequence, words in different languages are often only partially cognate, sharing only a few but not all morphemes. While partial
cognates do not constitute a problem for the phonological reconstruction of individual morphemes, they
are problematic when it comes to…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8d38dd122e41d7894f3072971cbdcfc Mei-Shin Wu deposited Annotating Cognates in Phylogenetic Studies of South-East Asian Languages https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1738677/ Wed, 19 May 2021 10:19:34 -0400 Compounding and derivation are frequent in South-East Asian languages. Consequently, words in different languages are often only partially cognate, sharing only
a few but not all morphemes. While partial cognates do not constitute a problem for the phonological reconstruction of individual morphemes, they are problematic when
it comes to…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c32646b303eb4982c6972ee9d7bf193 Mei-Shin Wu deposited Computer-Assisted Language Comparison: State of the Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683223/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 08:17:36 -0400 Historical language comparison opens windows onto a human past, long before the availability of written records. Since traditional language comparison within the framework of the comparative method is largely based on manual data comparison, requiring the meticulous sifting through dictionaries, word lists, and grammars, the framework is difficult…[Read more]

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