Software
Familybias (R-package)
As described in: Bickel, B. 2013. Distributional biases in language families. In: Bickel, B., L.A. Grenoble, D.A. Peterson and A. Timberlake [eds.] Language typology and historical contingency. Amsterdam: Benjamins
Installation Instructions
The easiest way to install the familybias package is to use the devtools package (available on CRAN)
- Install the devtools package:
install.packages('devtools')
(if not yet installed) - Load the devtools package:
library(devtools)
- Install the familybias package:
install_github('familybias', 'UZH-IVS')
Using the familybias package
- To load the package, start R and type
library(familybias)
. - Type
?familybias
for more information on how to use the package.
Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics, patched version
Genealogical sample algorithm
As described in: Bickel, Balthasar, 2008. A refined sampling procedure for genealogical control. Language Typology and Universals 61, 221 - 33.
R script for reading Toolbox files into R
Shell scripts transforming CHAT files into Toolbox files
Two bash scripts in one zip archive; one script for CHAT files with headers; one for CHAT files without headers.
Convenience functions for searching corpora in R
See explanations for use with CPDP corpora.