Mahé Ben Hamed
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mahé Ben Hamed plays a role.
Articles
2009 UNIDIA: A database for deriving diachronic universals Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj (eds.), pp. 259–268 | Article
UNIDIA is a database on sound change designed to compile the sound change hypotheses formulated to account for the phonological evolution of the languages of the world. It aims at deriving a data-based typology of sound change, universals, tendencies and sound change distributions. It now contains… read more
2006 Stuck in the forest: Trees, networks and Chinese dialects Diachronica 23:1, pp. 29–60 | Article
This paper discusses the validity of the tree model of evolution for the particular case of Sinitic languages (or Chinese dialects). Our approach is lexically based, using standardized word lists. First, these lists were tested for their congruence, as they are supposed to have evolved at different… read more