Chundra Cathcart
PD Dr. Chundra Cathcart
Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics Group
I am a diachronic linguist whose work has a quantitative and computational bent. My main interests concern sound change and morphosyntactic change. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the pressures that interact to shape the synchronic profiles of languages, with a focus on languages of Central, South and Southeast Asia. I use a wide range of tools in my approach to these issues. I use a wide range of quantitative and computational tools to investigate these issues, including Bayesian models and methods from deep learning, and seek to develop models that are flexible enough to address a wide range of questions of interest to diachronic linguists and linguists more generally.
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Publications
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In search of isoglosses: continuous and discrete language embeddings in Slavic historical phonology. In: Nicolai, Garrett; Gorman, Kyle; Cotterell, Ryan. Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. Association for Computational Linguistics: Association for Computational Linguistics, 233-244.
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A probabilistic assessment of the Indo-Aryan Inner–Outer Hypothesis. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 10(1):42-86.
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Gaussian Process Models of Sound Change in Indo-Aryan Dialectology. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, Florence, 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics, 254-264.
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Toward a deep dialectological representation of Indo-Aryan. In: Zampieri, Marcos. Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Computational Linguistics, 110-119.
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Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (DiACL)—A database for ancient language typology. PLoS ONE, 13(10):e0205313.
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Modeling linguistic evolution: a look under the hood. Linguistics Vanguard, 4(1):n/a.
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Areal pressure in grammatical evolution: An Indo-European case study. Diachronica, 35(1):1-34.
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Decomposability and Frequency in the Hindi/Urdu Number System. In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, July 2017. Cognitive Science Society, 1733-1738.
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Vedic Post-Lexical Retroflexion: Opacity and Diachrony. In: 50th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, 2014 - 2014.