Contrastive Linguistics - Science topic

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Linguistic relatedness is defined by shared ancestry, not by synchronically measured distance. Of course (some) distance metrics may be correlated with the degree of relatedness, since the older the last common ancestor of languages A and B, the more independent innovations are likely to have accumulated in either lineage over time, increasing the difference between them -- although it has to be kept in mind that the rate at which innovations arise and get fixed is anything but uniform. There is, however, no simple algorithm for computing the structure of the family tree, given just the measured distances.

Note, by the way, that:

Every method has its limit of reasonable application. Even for "unrelated" languages measurements of "distance" (no matter how defined) are certain to yield some values, which will however be random noise, not genetic information. They will not tell us whether English is more closely related to Tongan or to Quechua, or whether Quechua and Tongan cluster together to the exclusion of English. 

these corpus are available on Hindi-

1 Training corpus

Indian parallel corpora (39000 English Hindi parallel sentences)

Gyan  Nidhi corpus  (195165 words in English,202199 words in Hindi)

2 Tuning corpus

Gyan  Nidhi Tuning corpus (1000 sentences)

3 Testing corpus

 Joshua Indian parallel  corpora test set  (1000 sentences)

A very interesting angle in these languages since in the context of many African languages. the plural form is attached to many other lexical items that go with the noun.

Hello Ronglan, 

concepts such as ''  approximative system, interim grammar, idiosyncratic dialect , and

developing grammar are also  intimately related to  CA.  

There seems to be work by Sophie Scott.

I couldn't find a specific study, but

this seems to be related:

Other:

Regards,

Joachim

This is a very interesting request. Try visiting following web sites, I hope you'll find them useful.

Contrastive analysis is a linguistic and psychological approach to SLA, based on stfucturalism in linguistics and behaviorism in psychology. Its aim is pedagogical and is somehow outdated. Contrastive linguistics is a discipline of its own which has several aims and different approaches. Contrastive linguistics is NOT an approach to SLA though its findings usually have some pedagogical goals.  

Yes, there is a neat difference:

1. Comparative linguistics makes a synchronic and diachronic comparison between two languages which are "genetically" similar;

2. Contrastive linguistics contrasts the structures of two languages in order to pick all the relevant differences.

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Dear Bahram Kazemian

It is a good question. I would like to draw you attention to the fact that there are numerous studies that show the effectiveness of the contrastive analysis hypothesis . According to these studies, the knowledge about the kinds and degree of differences and similarities between languages on a number of linguistic levels helps in the process of predicting possible difficulties faced by L2 learners. From the pedagogical perspective, CA helps students to see clearly some of the problems they might face. They may avoid making interlingual errors if they are completely aware of the possible difficult areas. CA provides an access for EFL/ESL teachers to diagnose their students' errors. Teachers may not expect students' errors in advance, but at least they can have the ability to explain or diagnose students' errors through CA. Identification of differences and similarities between languages might have a great contribution to the linguistic theory.

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