Challenges of sampling and how phylogenetic comparative methods help: With a case study of the Pama-Nyungan laminal contrast

no code implementations • 1 Jan 2022 • Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes, Erich R. Round

Phylogenetic comparative methods are new in our field and are shrouded, for most linguists, in at least a little mystery.

The role of attraction-repulsion dynamics in simulating the emergence of inflectional class systems

no code implementations • 16 Nov 2021 • Erich R. Round, Sacha Beniamine, Louise Esher

Dynamic models of paradigm change can elucidate how the simplest of processes may lead to unexpected outcomes, and thereby can reveal new potential explanations for observed linguistic phenomena.

Re-evaluating phoneme frequencies

no code implementations • 9 Jun 2020 • Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes, Erich R. Round

Causal processes can give rise to distinctive distributions in the linguistic variables that they affect.

Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics

no code implementations • 3 Feb 2020 • Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes, Claire Bowern, Erich R. Round

Phylogenetic methods have broad potential in linguistics beyond tree inference.