Dmitry Nikolaev
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 810900 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dmitry Nikolaev |
| PRENOMES | Dmitry |
| SOBRENOME | Nikolaev |
| ASSINATURA | NIKOLAEV D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2436-1532 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Conceptions of the Human
The article introduces a multidimensional classification of images of the human, encompassing a broad range of approaches in philosophy, science, and technology. The classification is structured along eleven analytical axes that outline continua of possible interpretations of the human: from the basis of the image and levels of analysis to models of rationality, embodiment, and technological embeddedness. Taken together, these axes provide a fra…
IClassifier
This article presents the method applied by the iClassifier (©Goldwasser/Harel/Nikolaev) digital research tool for the study of the linguistic phenomenon of classifiers. The tool was created in 2019 with the objective of curating corpus-based and data-driven documentation of classifier systems. The record of classifiers comprises millions of tokens worth of “big data” analysis. By tagging classifiers in various corpora, a topography of categories…
Operationalizing Borrowability
Operationalizing Borrowability
This study provides two mathematical formalizations of borrowability. These operationalizations allow us to quantitatively evaluate the borrowability of phonological segments and to make predictions about the likelihood that speech sounds will be borrowed in language contact situations. Our approach departs from traditional borrowability hierarchies based on qualitative observations and instead provides empirically motivated models based on proba…
Bootstrap co-occurrence networks of consonants and the Basic Consonant Inventory
It has been recently shown by Nikolaev and Grossman that it is possible to provide a fine-grained typological analysis of consonant inventories of the world’s languages by investigating co-occurrence classes of segments, i.e. groups of segments that tend to be found together in inventories. Nikolaev and Grossman argued that the structure of many of such co-occurrence classes is in contradiction with the Feature-Economy Principle. As a side produc…
A typology of consonant-inventory gaps
This article provides a new precise algorithmic definition of the notion “phonological-inventory gap”. On the basis of this definition, I propose a method for identifying gaps, provide descriptive data on several types of consonant-inventory gaps in the world’s languages, and investigate the relationships between gaps and inventory size, processes of sound change, and phonological segment borrowing
Universal and macro-areal patterns in the lexicon
This paper investigates universal and areal structures in the lexicon as manifested by colexification patterns in the semantic domains of perception and cognition, based on data from both small and large datasets. Using several methods, including weighted semantic maps, formal concept lattices, correlation analysis, and dimensionality reduction, we identify colexification patterns in the domains in question and evaluate the extent to which these …
[Review of
Psychological Concept of the Scientific Rationality Types Part 1. Ideal Objects and the Types of Rationality
The article presents a psychological concept of the scientific rationality types, which is based on the constructivist version of the Self-Determination Theory. In part 1, the author shows that the scientific rationality type of a particular theory is determined by the content features of used ideal objects. Depending on the contribution of two components – elements of sensory experience and “free fiction” of the researcher – it is proposed to di…
Psychological Concept of the Scientific Rationality Types. Part 2. Development of Scientific Knowledge
In the first part of the article, it was shown that the type of scientific rationality of a particular theory is determined by the substantial features of the ideal objects used. Depending on the contribution of two components to their content – elements of sensory experience and “free fiction” of the researcher – it is proposed to distinguish eight types of rationality. In the second part of the article, an attempt is made to trace the main tr…
Identifying Latin authors through maximum-likelihood Dirichlet inference
Some Considerations on the Attribution of the ‘New Apuleius’
The ‘New Apuleius’ is a set of Latin summaries of Plato's works first published in 2016 by Justin Stover, who attributed it to Apuleius. The present article attempts to assess two key aspects of Stover's argument, viz. his reconstruction of the manuscript transmission of the new text and his use of computer-assisted stylometric techniques. The authors suggest that both strands of his argument are inconclusive. First, it is argued that the transpo…
Shedding the shackles of oral formulaic theory
On the sound change *ld > nd in Tibetic
This short note provides phonetic and phonological arguments in favour of the explanation of the sound change *ld > n d in Tibetic proposed by Sprigg (1972). It is argued that an alternative explanation by Gong (2016), resting on a novel interpretation of the consonant system of Common Central Tibetan, is not supported by the data and has no conceptual advantages
Morphosyntactic predictability of translationese
It is often assumed that translated texts are easier to process than original ones. However, it has also been shown that translated texts contain evident traces of source-language morphosyntax, which should presumably make them less predictable and harder to process. We test these competing observations by measuring morphosyntactic entropies of original and translated texts in several languages and show that there may exist a categorical distinct…
Consonant co-occurrence classes and the feature-economy principle
The feature-economy principle is one of the key theoretical notions which have been postulated to account for the structure of phoneme inventories in the world's languages. In this paper, we test the explanatory power of this principle by conducting a study of the co-occurrence of consonant segments in phonological inventories, based on a sample of 2761 languages. We show that the feature-economy principle is able to account for many important pa…
Areal dependency of consonant inventories
This paper discusses the impact of linguistic contact on the make-up of consonantal inventories of the languages of Eurasia. New measures for studying the importance of language contact for the development of phonological inventories are proposed, and two empirical studies are reported. First, using two different measures of dissimilarity of phonemic inventories (the Jaccard dissimilarity measure and the novel Closest-Relative Cumulative Jaccard …
The Database of Eurasian Phonological Inventories
The paper presents an overview of The Database of Eurasian Phonological Inventories —a new information resource and analytical tool for research in the field of distributional phonological typology, theoretical phonology, and areal linguistics
Areal sound change and the distributional typology of affricate richness in Eurasia
This paper makes a contribution to phonological typology by investigating the distribution of affricate-rich languages in Eurasia. It shows that affricate-rich and affricate-dense languages cluster areally within Eurasia and have area-specific histories. In particular, the affricate-rich areas of western Eurasia – a ‘European’ area and a Caucasian area – are not the result of contact-induced sound changes or borrowing, while the two affricate-ric…
“Zhivaia Starina” in the Year 2010
“Zhivaia Starina” (“Living Tradition”)
Operationalizing Borrowability
This study provides two mathematical formalizations of borrowability. These operationalizations allow us to quantitatively evaluate the borrowability of phonological segments and to make predictions about the likelihood that speech sounds will be borrowed in language contact situations. Our approach departs from traditional borrowability hierarchies based on qualitative observations and instead provides empirically motivated models based on proba…
Some Considerations on the Attribution of the ‘New Apuleius’
The ‘New Apuleius’ is a set of Latin summaries of Plato's works first published in 2016 by Justin Stover, who attributed it to Apuleius. The present article attempts to assess two key aspects of Stover's argument, viz. his reconstruction of the manuscript transmission of the new text and his use of computer-assisted stylometric techniques. The authors suggest that both strands of his argument are inconclusive. First, it is argued that the transpo…
“Zhivaia Starina” (“Living Tradition”)
“Zhivaia Starina” in the Year 2010
The Database of Eurasian Phonological Inventories
The paper presents an overview of The Database of Eurasian Phonological Inventories —a new information resource and analytical tool for research in the field of distributional phonological typology, theoretical phonology, and areal linguistics
Areal sound change and the distributional typology of affricate richness in Eurasia
This paper makes a contribution to phonological typology by investigating the distribution of affricate-rich languages in Eurasia. It shows that affricate-rich and affricate-dense languages cluster areally within Eurasia and have area-specific histories. In particular, the affricate-rich areas of western Eurasia – a ‘European’ area and a Caucasian area – are not the result of contact-induced sound changes or borrowing, while the two affricate-ric…
Areal dependency of consonant inventories
This paper discusses the impact of linguistic contact on the make-up of consonantal inventories of the languages of Eurasia. New measures for studying the importance of language contact for the development of phonological inventories are proposed, and two empirical studies are reported. First, using two different measures of dissimilarity of phonemic inventories (the Jaccard dissimilarity measure and the novel Closest-Relative Cumulative Jaccard …
Shedding the shackles of oral formulaic theory
On the sound change *ld > nd in Tibetic
This short note provides phonetic and phonological arguments in favour of the explanation of the sound change *ld > n d in Tibetic proposed by Sprigg (1972). It is argued that an alternative explanation by Gong (2016), resting on a novel interpretation of the consonant system of Common Central Tibetan, is not supported by the data and has no conceptual advantages
Morphosyntactic predictability of translationese
It is often assumed that translated texts are easier to process than original ones. However, it has also been shown that translated texts contain evident traces of source-language morphosyntax, which should presumably make them less predictable and harder to process. We test these competing observations by measuring morphosyntactic entropies of original and translated texts in several languages and show that there may exist a categorical distinct…
Consonant co-occurrence classes and the feature-economy principle
The feature-economy principle is one of the key theoretical notions which have been postulated to account for the structure of phoneme inventories in the world's languages. In this paper, we test the explanatory power of this principle by conducting a study of the co-occurrence of consonant segments in phonological inventories, based on a sample of 2761 languages. We show that the feature-economy principle is able to account for many important pa…
Identifying Latin authors through maximum-likelihood Dirichlet inference
Some Considerations on the Attribution of the ‘New Apuleius’
The ‘New Apuleius’ is a set of Latin summaries of Plato's works first published in 2016 by Justin Stover, who attributed it to Apuleius. The present article attempts to assess two key aspects of Stover's argument, viz. his reconstruction of the manuscript transmission of the new text and his use of computer-assisted stylometric techniques. The authors suggest that both strands of his argument are inconclusive. First, it is argued that the transpo…
A typology of consonant-inventory gaps
This article provides a new precise algorithmic definition of the notion “phonological-inventory gap”. On the basis of this definition, I propose a method for identifying gaps, provide descriptive data on several types of consonant-inventory gaps in the world’s languages, and investigate the relationships between gaps and inventory size, processes of sound change, and phonological segment borrowing
Universal and macro-areal patterns in the lexicon
This paper investigates universal and areal structures in the lexicon as manifested by colexification patterns in the semantic domains of perception and cognition, based on data from both small and large datasets. Using several methods, including weighted semantic maps, formal concept lattices, correlation analysis, and dimensionality reduction, we identify colexification patterns in the domains in question and evaluate the extent to which these …
[Review of
Psychological Concept of the Scientific Rationality Types Part 1. Ideal Objects and the Types of Rationality
The article presents a psychological concept of the scientific rationality types, which is based on the constructivist version of the Self-Determination Theory. In part 1, the author shows that the scientific rationality type of a particular theory is determined by the content features of used ideal objects. Depending on the contribution of two components – elements of sensory experience and “free fiction” of the researcher – it is proposed to di…
Psychological Concept of the Scientific Rationality Types. Part 2. Development of Scientific Knowledge
In the first part of the article, it was shown that the type of scientific rationality of a particular theory is determined by the substantial features of the ideal objects used. Depending on the contribution of two components to their content – elements of sensory experience and “free fiction” of the researcher – it is proposed to distinguish eight types of rationality. In the second part of the article, an attempt is made to trace the main tr…
Bootstrap co-occurrence networks of consonants and the Basic Consonant Inventory
It has been recently shown by Nikolaev and Grossman that it is possible to provide a fine-grained typological analysis of consonant inventories of the world’s languages by investigating co-occurrence classes of segments, i.e. groups of segments that tend to be found together in inventories. Nikolaev and Grossman argued that the structure of many of such co-occurrence classes is in contradiction with the Feature-Economy Principle. As a side produc…
IClassifier
This article presents the method applied by the iClassifier (©Goldwasser/Harel/Nikolaev) digital research tool for the study of the linguistic phenomenon of classifiers. The tool was created in 2019 with the objective of curating corpus-based and data-driven documentation of classifier systems. The record of classifiers comprises millions of tokens worth of “big data” analysis. By tagging classifiers in various corpora, a topography of categories…
Operationalizing Borrowability
Operationalizing Borrowability
This study provides two mathematical formalizations of borrowability. These operationalizations allow us to quantitatively evaluate the borrowability of phonological segments and to make predictions about the likelihood that speech sounds will be borrowed in language contact situations. Our approach departs from traditional borrowability hierarchies based on qualitative observations and instead provides empirically motivated models based on proba…
Conceptions of the Human
The article introduces a multidimensional classification of images of the human, encompassing a broad range of approaches in philosophy, science, and technology. The classification is structured along eleven analytical axes that outline continua of possible interpretations of the human: from the basis of the image and levels of analysis to models of rationality, embodiment, and technological embeddedness. Taken together, these axes provide a fra…
Computer Science (14 obras) · Linguistics (11 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 obras) · Mathematics (6 obras) · Natural language processing (6 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (5 obras) · Consonant (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras)