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Agent-based models for the evolution of morphological alternation patterns

arXiv cs.CL · 3d ago Cached

This paper presents multi-agent simulations of the emergence of morphological alternation patterns (like 'go/went') in language, using an AI Historical Linguist (LLM-driven) to evaluate plausibility of evolved morphologies against real languages.

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Lost in Translation? Exploring the Shift in Grammatical Gender from Latin to Occitan

Hugging Face Daily Papers · 2026-05-26 Cached

A deep learning framework is developed to analyze grammatical gender evolution from Latin to Romance languages, focusing on low-resource historical settings using lexical and contextual analysis.

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Cross-Linguistic Transcription and Phonological Representation in the Hu\`it\'onggu\v{a}nx\`i Hu\'ay\'iy\`iy\v{u}

arXiv cs.CL · 2026-05-15 Cached

This paper analyzes the Huitongguanxi Huayiyiyu, a series of multilingual glossaries from the Ming dynasty, as a structured cross-linguistic transcription system that used Chinese characters to represent non-Chinese languages, revealing how Chinese phonological categories were flexibly extended for phonetic approximation.

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