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physics.soc-ph2021
Inferring the drivers of language change using spatial models
James Burridge, Tamsin Blaxter
Discovering and quantifying the drivers of language change is a major challenge. Hypotheses about causal factors proliferate, but are difficult to rigorously test. Here we ask a si…
physics.soc-ph2020★ 1 cited
Spatial evidence that language change is not neutral
James Burridge, Tamsin Blaxter
The neutral theory of genetic and linguistic evolution holds that the relative frequencies of variants evolve by random drift. Neutral evolution remains a plausible null model of l…