The Classification of Central Semitic

Voigt, Rainer

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“…For Semitic, see Hetzron (1997); Weninger (2011); as well as the relevant chapters in Woodard (2004) on the ancient Semitic languages. 2The main divisions of this classification, especially the branch of Central Semitic, were first proposed in a series of articles by Hetzron from the 1970s (see especially Hetzron 1976) and subsequently developed by others (see especially Huehnergard 1995Huehnergard , 2005Huehnergard , 2006Huehnergard , 2017Huehnergard and Rubin 2011;Porkhomovsky 1997;Rubin 2008;Voigt 1987). 3 For brief overviews of Aramaic, see Brock (1989b); Kaufman (1992Kaufman ( , 1997; Van Rompay (2011a).…”

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The Syriac World

King¹

2018

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THE SYRIAC WORLD'The Syriac World represents the most marvellous resource, not just for specialists in Syriac studies but also for scholars and students of global history and religion. Covering the broadest possible range of relevant topics, it brings together cutting-edge research by acknowledged experts, and succeeds in being both immensely learned and accessible. There is generous provision of maps, illustrations, and appendices, and the

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2018

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“…Amharic is a member of the Ethio-Semitic languages, which belong to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic super family (Voigt 1987). It is related to Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac.…”

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Using morphemes in language modeling and automatic speech recognition of Amharic

2012

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This paper presents morpheme-based language models developed for Amharic (a morphologically rich Semitic language) and their application to a speech recognition task. A substantial reduction in the out of vocabulary rate has been observed as a result of using subwords or morphemes. Thus a severe problem of morphologically rich languages has been addressed. Moreover, lower perplexity values have been obtained with morpheme-based language models than with word-based models. However, when comparing the quality based on the probability assigned to the test sets, word-based models seem to fare better. We have studied the utility of morpheme-based language models in speech recognition systems and found that the performance of a relatively small vocabulary (5k) speech recognition system improved significantly as a result of using morphemes as language modeling and dictionary units. However, as the size of the vocabulary increases (20k or more) the morpheme-based systems suffer from acoustic confusability and did not achieve a significant improvement over a word-based system with an equivalent vocabulary size even with the use of higher order (quadrogram) n-gram language models.

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“…Since the 1970s, there has been much written on the topic of Central Semitic. The most notable studies are those of Voigt (1987) and Huehnergard (2005), the latter of which is the most thorough treatment of the topic to date. In his study, Huehnergard reviews sixteen features common to Central Semitic, in order to determine which of these likely reflect shared innovations as opposed to shared retentions, areal phenomena, or independent developments.…”

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“…44 44 It should be noted that already Voigt (1987) argued for the inclusion the Ṣayhadic languages in the Central Semitic branch. …”

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The Subgrouping of the Semitic Languages

Rubin

2007

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The Semitic languages have enjoyed a long tradition of linguistic study, and remain one of the most widely studied of the world's language families. The large amount of scholarship that is generated on both the ancient and modern languages continues to have an effect on our understanding of the internal subgrouping of the Semitic family. Unfortunately, for both the specialist and non‐specialist, reliable and up‐to‐date treatments of this topic are not easily found. This article will survey the current views on Semitic subgrouping and highlight recent scholarship on the issue.

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The Classification of Central Semitic

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Using morphemes in language modeling and automatic speech recognition of Amharic

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