Abstract Traditionally, linguists have organized languages of the world as language families, such Indo-European, Dravidian and Sino-Tibetan. Within Indo-European family, they further into sub-families Germanic, Celtic Indo-Iranian. They do this by looking at similar-sounding words across commonality rules word formation sentence construction. In work, we make use computational approaches that ...

Using GLOBE classification and findings, this paper compares the family characteristics and work cultures of family businesses in Anglo, Germanic, and Nordic cultures. Results indicate differing patterns in terms of the involvement of the family in the family business and other key organizational dimensions. While all three regions share their weak family orientation, the Nordic and Germanic re...

The notion ‘preverb’ is a traditional descriptive notion in Indo-European linguistics. It refers to morphemes that appear in front of a verb, and which form a close semantic unit with that verb. In many cases, the morpheme that functions as a preverb can also function without a preverbal context, often as an adverb or an adposition. Most linguists use the notion ‘preverb’ as a cover term for pr...

The rationale for lexical studies rests on the assumption that the most meaningful personality attributes tend to become encoded in language as single-word descriptors. We articulate some key premises of the lexical approach and then review a number of studies that have been conducted examining the factor structure of personality descriptors extracted from dictionaries. We compare lexical studi...

We present an approach for knowledge-free and unsupervised recognition of compound nouns for languages that use one-wordcompounds such as Germanic and Scandinavian languages. Our approach works by creating a candidate list of compound splits based on the word list of a large corpus. Then, we filter this list using the following criteria: (a) frequencies of compounds and parts, (b) length of par...

This study presents the results of a large-scale analysis of various measures of pitch range and pitch variation in two typologically different language groups: English and German (Germanic) and Bulgarian and Polish (Slavic). The comparison is based on large multi-speaker corpora (48 speakers for Polish, 60 for each of the other three languages). Linear mixed models were computed that include v...

This study investigates the role of phonological and morphological information in children's developing orthographies in two languages with different linguistic typologies: Hebrew, a Semitic language with a highly synthetic morphology, and Dutch, a Germanic language with a sparse morphology. 192 Israeli and 192 Belgian monolingual schoolchildren in grades 1-6 (aged 6;0-12;0) were administered r...