Catalan, a touchstone for European linguistic diversity

Touchstone { a Lightweight Processor Benchmark Touchstone { a Lightweight Processor Benchmark

Benchmarks are valuable for comparing processor performance. However, porting and running processor benchmarks on new platforms can be di cult. Touchstone, a simple addition benchmark, is designed to overcome portability problems, while retaining performance measurement accuracy. In this paper, we present experimental results that show Touchstone correlates strongly with processor performance u...

Inconsistency as a Touchstone for Coherence Measures

The debate on probabilistic measures of coherence has focused on evaluating sets of consistent propositions. In this paper we draw attention to the largely neglected question of whether such measures concur with intuitions on test cases with inconsistent propositions and whether they satisfy general adequacy constraints on coherence and inconsistency. While it turns out that, for the vast major...

Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution

This paper investigates the effect of linguistic diversity on redistribution in a broad crosssection of countries. We use the notion of “linguistic distances” and show that the commonly used fractionalization index, which ignores linguistic distances, yields insignificant results. However, once distances between languages are accounted for, linguistic diversity has both a statistically and econ...

Africa's Linguistic Diversity

African language classification in the latter half of the 20th century has been dominated by Joseph Greenberg’s work classifying African languages into four linguistic genetic groupings: Afroasiatic, Niger-Kordofanian, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan. Current research indicates that there are a minimum of 20 unrelated African language families or isolates. Africa’s linguistic diversity will remain po...

Linguistic diversity and universals