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  • A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method 
    Rama T.; Wichmann S. (2020)
    Copyright: © 2020 Rama, Wichmann. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided ...
  • A world language family simulation 
    Wichmann S. (2021)
    Following a methodological approach developed in collaboration with Dietrich Stauffer, some empirical observations on the dynamics of the world's languages, in this case rates of language diffusion, are graphed and a ...
  • Adding typology to lexicostatistics: A combined approach to language classification 
    Bakker D.; Müller A.; Velupillai V.; Wichmann S.; Brown C.; Brown P.; Egorov D.; Mailhammer R.; Grant A.; Holman E. (2009)
    The ASJP project aims at establishing relationships between languages on the basis of the Swadesh word list. For this purpose, lists have been collected and phonologically transcribed for almost 3,500 languages. Using a ...
  • An algorithm to identify periods of establishment and obsolescence of linguistic items in a diachronic corpus 
    Cunha E.L.T.P.; Wichmann S. (2021)
    When exploring diachronic corpora, it is often beneficial for linguists to pinpoint not only the first or the last attestation dates of certain linguistic items, but also the moments in which they become more strongly ...
  • Automated dating of the world's language families based on lexical similarity 
    Holman E.; Brown C.; Wichmann S.; Müller A.; Velupillai V.; Hammarström H.; Sauppe S.; Jung H.; Bakker D.; Brown P.; Belyaev O.; Urban M.; Mailhammer R.; List J.; Egorov D. (2011)
    This paper describes a computerized alternative to glottochronology for estimating elapsed time since parent languages diverged into daughter languages. The method, developed by the Automated Similarity Judgment Program ...
  • Chitimacha: A Mesoamerican language in the lower Mississippi valley 
    Brown C.; Wichmann S.; Beck D. (2014)
    © 2014 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. The comparative method of historical linguistics is carefully applied to the hypothesis that Chitimacha, a language of southern Louisiana now without fully fluent ...
  • Linguistic clues to Iroquoian prehistory 
    Schillaci M.; Kopris C.; Wichmann S.; Dewar G. (2017)
    © 2017 by The University of New Mexico. All rights reserved. This paper employs a quantitative analysis of lexical data to generate a tree describing the historical relationships among Iroquoian languages. An alternative ...
  • Methods for calculating walking distances 
    Wichmann S.; Hammarström H. (2020)
    © 2019 Elsevier B.V. In many scientific disciplines it is often necessary to refer to geographical travel distances. While online services can provide such distances, they fail for larger distances or for distances between ...
  • New Evidence from Linguistic Phylogenetics Identifies Limits to Punctuational Change 
    Holman E.; Wichmann S. (2017)
    © 2017 The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Society of Systematic Biologists. All rights reserved. Since the early 1970s, biologists have debated whether evolution is punctuated by ...
  • Sound-meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages 
    Blasi D.; Wichmann S.; Hammarström H.; Stadler P.; Christiansen M. (2016)
    It is widely assumed that one of the fundamental properties of spoken language is the arbitrary relation between sound and meaning. Some exceptions in the form of nonarbitrary associations have been documented in linguistics, ...
  • Statistical observations on hierarchies of transitivity 
    Aldai G.; Wichmann S. (2018)
    © 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. In this paper we first test whether there is statistical support for a transitivity hierarchy viewed as an implicational hierarchy. To that end we construct data-driven ...
  • Testing methods of linguistic homeland detection using synthetic data 
    Wichmann S.; Rama T. (2021)
    Two families of quantitative methods have been used to infer geographical homelands of language families: Bayesian phylogeography and the 'diversity method'. Bayesian methods model how populations may have moved using a ...
  • The challenges of language dynamics. Comment on "Modelling language evolution: Examples and predictions" by Gong, Shuai, and Zhang 
    Wichmann S. (2014)
  • The DReaM corpus: A multilingual annotated corpus of grammars for the world's languages 
    Virk S.M.; Hammarström H.; Forsberg M.; Wichmann S. (2020)
    © European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC There exist as many as 7000 natural languages in the world, and a huge number of documents describing those languages have been produced over the ...
  • The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages 
    Seifart F.; Strunk J.; Danielsen S.; Hartmann I.; Pakendorf B.; Wichmann S.; Witzlack-Makarevich A.; Himmelmann N.P.; Bickel B. (2021)
    Words in utterance-final positions are often pronounced more slowly than utterance-medial words, as previous studies on individual languages have shown. This paper provides a systematic cross-linguistic comparison of ...
  • The Paleobiolinguistics of Maize (Zea mays L.) 
    Brown C.; Clement C.; Epps P.; Luedeling E.; Wichmann S. (2014)
    Paleobiolinguistics is used to determine when and where maize (Zea mays L.) developed significance for different prehistoric groups of Native America. Dates and locations of proto-languages for which maize terms reconstruct ...
  • The paleobiolinguistics of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) 
    Brown C.; Clement C.; Epps P.; Luedeling E.; Wichmann S. (2014)
    ©2014 Society of Ethnobiology Paleobiolinguistics is used to determine when and where the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) developed significance for prehistoric groups of Native America. Dates and locations of ...
  • Universals versus historical contingencies in lexical evolution 
    Bochkarev V.; Solovyev V.; Wichmann S. (2014)
    © 2014 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. The frequency with which we use different words changes all the time, and every so often, a new lexical item is invented or another one ceases to ...
  • Using WALS and Jazyki mira 
    Polyakov V.; Solovyev V.; Wichmann S.; Belyaev O. (2009)
    The article's primary concern is to address the usage of The world atlas of language structures through comparing it with another typological database of similar scope, Jazyki mira. Such a comparison is carried out based ...

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