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The comparison of two methods in the anthropological study of linguistic differentiation

The paper presents the application of hidden Markov models (HMM) in the analysis of the linguistic microdifferentiation of 48 reproductively isolated populations in the Eastern Adriatic. The mathematical method is described in detail and applied for the recognition of the two main dialects (čakavian and štokavian) present in the investigated area, using two distinguished HMM. The resulting classification of villages is compared to those of the clustering methods applied previously for the same purpose.

Hidden Markov model; linguistic differentiation; anthropology

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