christinschaetzle/DiaHClust: Hierarchical clustering method for identifying stages in language change

This package contains functions which implement the DiaHClust methodology (Schätzle and Booth 2019), a new approach which can be used to identify stages in language change based on quantitative corpus-derived data. DiaHClust is based on the hierarchical clustering approach for historical data from Hilpert and Gries (2008, 2012) called 'Variability-based Neighbor Clustering' (VNC) and develops this further by adding an extra iterative approach to the hierarchical clustering which results in a multi-layered perspective on change, from text-level to broader periods.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("christinschaetzle/DiaHClust")