"A word said in a certain language will have a different shape to the same word in
another language, or an earlier language. The researchers can shift from one shape to
another through a series of small changes in the statistics. “It’s more than an
averaging process, it’s a continuum from one sound to the other,” adds Aston, who is
funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). “At each
stage, we can turn the shape back into sound to hear how the word has changed.”"
More here:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/time-travelling-to-the-mother-tongue
Dave
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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
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