Multilingual NLP 2022 - Language Contact and Change

Explore a lecture on language contact and change, covering topics such as dialects, nonnative writing, cognates, borrowing, and computational models. Delve into bilingual embedding and lexicon induction, including models of cognates. Learn about the reasons behind language evolution, politeness, misunderstandings, and lexical changes. Examine loanwords, crosslingual lexical similarities, stratified lexicon structure, and peripheral vocabulary. Investigate transliteration, cognate and loan word identification, lexical borrowing, and unsupervised lexicon induction techniques. Gain insights into assimilated vocabulary and the impact of life experiences and education on language development.

Introduction
Why do languages change
Politeness
Misunderstanding
Lexical Changes
Loanwords
Language Contact
Crosslingual lexical similarities
stratified lexicon structure
peripheral vocabulary
lexicon induction
transliteration
cognate loan words
lexical borrowing
cognates
cognate databases
lexical databases
unsupervised lexicon induction
assimilated
lifeschool