Archive of papers read in a (very) approximately fortnightly reading group devoted to the study of language variation and change from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Archive
11/03/2021
McElreath, R. (2020) The Golem of Prague. In Statistical rethinking: a Bayesian course with examples in R and Stan (2nd ed.), 1–18. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
18/02/2021
Daniels, D., Barth, D. & Barth, W. (2019) Subgrouping the Sogeram languages: a critical appraisal of Historical Glottometry. Journal of Historical Linguistics, 9, 92–127. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.17011.dan
11/02/2021
Burnham, K. P. & Anderson, D. R. (2004) Multimodel inference: understanding AIC and BIC in model selection. Sociological Methods & Research, 33, 261–304. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124104268644
16/12/2020
Beck, C. (2020) DiaSense at SemEval-2020 Task 1: Modeling sense change via pre-trained BERT embeddings. In A. Herbelot et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 50–58. Barcelona: International Committee for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.semeval-1.4
11/11/2020
François, A. (2014) Trees, waves and linkages: models of language diversification. In C. Bowern & B. Evans (eds.), The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics, 161–189. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315794013.ch6
28/10/2020
Burnett, H. (2019) Signalling games, sociolinguistic variation and the construction of style. Linguistics and Philosophy, 42, 419–450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-018-9254-y
07/10/2020
Karjus, A., Blythe, R. A., Kirby, S. & Smith, K. (2020) Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora. Glossa, 5(1), 45. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.909
16/09/2020
Everett, C. (2013) Evidence for direct geographic influences on linguistic sounds: the case of ejectives. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e65275. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065275
02/09/2020
Baumann, A. & Ritt, N. (2017) On the replicator dynamics of lexical stress: accounting for stress-pattern diversity in terms of evolutionary game theory. Phonology, 34, 439–471. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675717000240
29/06/2020
Sóskuthy, M. (2015) Understanding change through stability: a computational study of sound change actuation. Lingua, 163, 40–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.05.010
11/06/2020
Jacques, G. & List, J.-M. (2019) Save the trees: why we need tree models in linguistic reconstruction (and when we should apply them). Journal of Historical Linguistics, 9(1), 128–166. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.17008.mat
21/05/2020
Andersen, H. (2006) Synchrony, diachrony, and evolution. In O. N. Thomsen (ed.), Competing models of linguistic change, 59–90. Amsterdam: Benjamins. https://www.academia.edu/805573/2006._Synchrony_diachrony_and_evolution_
07/05/2020
Chang, W., Cathcart, C., Hall, D. & Garrett, A. (2015) Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis. Language, 91(1), 194–244. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/576998
23/04/2020
Gray, R. & Atkinson, Q. (2003) Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin. Nature, 426, 435–439. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02029
Further reading:
- Huelsenbeck, J. P. & Ronquist, F. (2001) MRBAYES: Bayesian inference on phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics, 17(8), 754–755. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/17.8.754
- Mau, B., Newton, M. A. & Larget, B. (1999) Bayesian phylogenetic inference via Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Biometrics, 55, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00001.x
- Nichols, J. & Warnow, T. (2008) Tutorial on computational linguistic phylogeny. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2(5), 760–820. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00082.x
- Pereltsvaig, A. & Lewis, M. W. (2015) The Indo-European controversy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107294332
09/04/2020
Burridge, J., Blaxter, T. & Vaux, B. (2020) Evolutionary paths of language. EPL, 128, 28003. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/128/28003
26/03/2020
Harrington, J., Gubian, M., Stevens, M. & Schiel, F. (2019) Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, 3327. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5130709