Balthasar Bickel
= Balthasar Bickel
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<Balthasar Bickel> is a <linguist> studying the diversification of <languages> and the mechanisms that constrain it. His research combines comparisons of grammars, lexicons and <text corpus> resources with experimental methods including <electroencephalography> and <eye tracking>. He describes these as complementary approaches to <language change> and its biological foundations.<Research profile by Balthasar Bickel>[research statement, comparative models and experimental methods]{ref}
The combination illustrates two different sources of evidence. Comparing documented <syntactic dependencies> across <languages> can reveal recurring patterns; an experiment can instead hold an input contrast fixed and measure processing in participants. These are examples of the questions those methods can address, rather than findings inferred from a biography.
<Balthasar Bickel> also co-developed the <Leipzig Glossing Rules by Bernard Comrie and others> with <Bernard Comrie> and <Martin Haspelmath>. Their shared conventions make <linguistic annotation> easier to compare while leaving grammatical analysis open to argument.<Leipzig Glossing Rules by Bernard Comrie and others>[About the rules, developer credit and distinction between convention and analysis]{ref}
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