From the foods we eat and the houses we construct, to our religious practices and political
organization, to who we can marry and the types of games we teach our children, the …

Recent years have seen Bayesian phylogenetic methods from evolutionary biology applied
to questions about language evolution in two major contexts. First, language phylogenies …

Computational and human perception are often considered separate approaches for
studying sound changes over time; few works have touched on the intersection of both. To …

The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has
unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the …

Sound correspondence patterns play a crucial role for linguistic reconstruction. Linguists use
them to prove language relationship, to reconstruct proto-forms, and for classical …

Skepticism regarding the tree model has a long tradition in historical linguistics. Although
scholars have emphasized that the tree model and its long-standing counterpart, the wave …

This paper investigates whether a consideration of linguistic history is important when
studying the relationship between economic and linguistic behaviors. Several recent …

With some 108 independent genealogical units, South America is the linguistically most
diverse region of our planet and presents a particular challenge to linguists seeking to …

We describe a set of new methods to partially automate linguistic phylogenetic inference
given (1) cognate sets with their respective protoforms and sound laws,(2) a mapping from …

We present a computational phylogeny for the internal classification of the Quechua
language family. Based on a concept list of 150 lexical items, we manually analyzed data …