Periods of Hungarian historical dialectology

A Benchmark Database of Phonetic Alignments in Historical Linguistics and Dialectology

In the last two decades, alignment analyses have become an important technique in quantitative historical linguistics and dialectology. Phonetic alignment plays a crucial role in the identification of regular sound correspondences and deeper genealogical relations between and within languages and language families. Surprisingly, up to today, there are no easily accessible benchmark data sets fo...

Problems of a Declining Hungarian Birth Rate: A Historical Perspective

In contrast to its immediate neighbors, for over a century Hungary has had a seriously declining birth rate. This paper aims to provide an overview of this anomaly through a historical perspective by considering the major findings of a series of demographic studies that identify the key factors behind falling levels of fertility. It does so by focusing on four major periods. The first period co...

Extinction debt of Hungarian reserves: A historical perspective

We compiled species lists of the birds, reptiles and amphibians found in Hungarian reserves, and then used these to estimate the level of historical species richness using species–area relationships. The situation in the 18th century, before largescale land transformation, such as river regulations and drainages, could be approximately reconstructed. The species–area relationship was significan...

Using electronic corpora in historical dialectology research : the problem of document length variation

An assault on historical memory: Hungarian nationalists and the Holocaust.