Productive Signs. A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Evolutionary, Typological, and Cognitive Dimensions of Word Families

Project Information

ProduSemy

Grant agreement ID: 101044282

DOI

10.3030/101044282

EC signature date 19 April 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT PASSAU
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Extracting Tuscan phonetic correspondences from dialect pronunciations automatically

Author(s): Arne Rubehn, Simonetta Montemagni, John Nerbonne
Published in: Language Dynamics and Change, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2210-5824
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/22105832-bja10034

Universal and cultural factors shape body part vocabularies

Author(s): Annika Tjuka; Robert Forkel; Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61140-0

Generating Feature Vectors from Phonetic Transcriptions in Cross-Linguistic Data Formats

Author(s): Arne Rubehn,Jessica Nieder, Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Society for Computation in Linguistics, Issue 7, 2024, ISSN 2834-1007
Publisher: University of Massachusetts
DOI: 10.7275/SCIL.2144

Curating and extending data for language comparison in Concepticon and NoRaRe [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]

Author(s): Annika Tjuka, Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Open Research Europe, 2023, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: OPEN RESEARCH EUROPE
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.15380.3

Partial colexifications reveal directional tendencies in object naming

Author(s): Annika Tjuka, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2197-2796
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/GCLA-2024-0005

Open Problems in Computational Historical Linguistics

Author(s): Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Open Research Europe, 2023, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: F1000
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.16804.1

A phylogenetic study of South-Western Tibetic

Author(s): Dubi Nanda Dhakal, Johann-Mattis List, Seán G Roberts
Published in: Journal of Language Evolution, Issue 9, 2024, ISSN 2058-4571
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/jole/lzae008

Lexical data for the historical comparison of Rgyalrongic languages

Author(s): Yunfan Lai; Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Open Research Europe, 2023, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: F1000
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.16017.2

Variation in phoneme inventories: quantifying the problem and improving comparability

Author(s): Cormac Anderson, Tiago Tresoldi, Simon J. Greenhill, Robert Forkel, Russell D. Gray, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Journal of Language Evolution, 2023, ISSN 2058-458X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jole/lzad011

Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison

Author(s): Johann-Mattis List; Nathan W. Hill; Frederic Blum; Cristian Juárez
Published in: Open Research Europe, 2024, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.12688/OPENRESEUROPE.16839.1

Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data

Author(s): Blum, Frederic; Barrientos, Carlos; Englisch, Johannes; Forkel, Robert; Greenhill, Simon J.; Rzymski, Christoph; List, Johann-Mattis
Published in: Open Research Europe, 2025, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.12688/OPENRESEUROPE.20216.1

Inference of partial colexifications from multilingual wordlists

Author(s): Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.00739

Finding language-internal cognates in Old Chinese

Author(s): Michele Pulini, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, Issue 17.1, 2024, ISSN 1933-6985
Publisher: Ainosco Press
DOI: 10.17613/FTM2-3B58

Trimming Phonetic Alignments Improves the Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns from Multilingual Wordlists

Author(s): Frederic Blum; Johann-Mattis List
Published in: SIGTYP, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.17932

A comparative wordlist for investigating distant relations among languages in Lowland South America

Author(s): Frederic Blum; Carlos Barrientos; Roberto Zariquiey; Johann‐Mattis List
Published in: Scientific Data, 2024, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-024-02928-7

Cognate reflex prediction as hypothesis test for a genealogical relation between the Panoan and Takanan language families

Author(s): Frederic Blum, Carlos Barrientos, Adriano Ingunza, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-82515-3

Conference proceedings (13)

Are sounds sound for phylogenetic reconstruction?

Author(s): Luise Häuser, Gerhard Jäger, Johann-Mattis List, Taraka Rama, Alexandros Stamatakis
Published in: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Annotating and Inferring Compositional Structures in Numeral Systems Across Languages

Author(s): Arne Rubehn, Christoph Rzymski, Luca Ciucci, Kellen Parker van Dam, Alžběta Kučerová, Katja Bocklage, David Snee, Abishek Stephen, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2025), 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2503.01625

Detecting lexical borrowings from dominant languages in multilingual wordlists. In: Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Author(s): John Miller, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: EACL Proceedings, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.00189

Resource Acquisition for Understudied Languages: Extracting Wordlists from Dictionaries for Computer-assisted Language Comparison

Author(s): Frederic Blum, Johannes Englisch, Alba Hermida Rodriguez, Rik van Gijn, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages @ LREC-COLING 2024, 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

From isolates to families: Using neural networks for automated language affiliation

Author(s): Frederic Blum, Steffen Herbold, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025. Long Papers, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2502.11688

Unstable Grounds for Beautiful Trees? Testing the Robustness of Concept Translations in the Compilation of Multilingual Wordlists

Author(s): David Snee, Luca Ciucci, Arne Rubehn, Kellen Parker van Dam, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2025), 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2503.00464

Invited paper: Computer-Assisted Language Comparison with EDICTOR 3

Author(s): Johann-Mattis List, Kellen van Dam
Published in: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Representing and Computing Uncertainty in Phonological Reconstruction

Author(s): List, Johann-Mattis; Hill, Nathan W.; Forkel, Robert; Blum, Frederic
Published in: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, 2023, ISSN 0736-587X
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2310.12727

Partial colexifications improve concept embeddings

Author(s): Arne Rubehn, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025. Long Papers, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2502.09743

Information-theoretic characterization of vowel harmony: A cross-linguistic study on word lists

Author(s): Julius Steuer, Badr Abdulla, Johann-Mattis List, Dietrich Kladrow
Published in: SIGTYP Proceedings, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.sigtyp-1.10

Linguistic Survey of India and Polyglotta Africana: Two Retrostandardized Digital Editions of Large Historical Collections of Multilingual Wordlists

Author(s): Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List, Christoph Rzymski, Guillaume Segerer
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 2024
Publisher: ELRA and ICCL

A Computational Model for the Assessment of Mutual Intelligibility Among Closely Related Languages

Author(s): Jessica Nieder, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

First Steps Towards the Integration of Resources on Historical Glossing Traditions in the History of Chinese: A Collection of Standardized Fǎnqiè Spellings from the Guǎngyùn

Author(s): Michele Pulini, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 2024
Publisher: ELRA and ICCL

Book chapters (1)

Productive Signs: Towards a Computer-Assisted Analysis of Evolutionary, Typological, and Cognitive Dimensions of Word Families

Author(s): Johann-Mattis List
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.17613/ZFWR-SN25