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Challenges of sampling and how phylogenetic comparative methods help: With a case study of the Pama-Nyungan laminal contrast
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. Yet the path that led to their discovery in comparative bi…
Evolution and trade-off dynamics of functional load
Erich Round, Rikker Dockum, Robin J. Ryder
Function Load (FL) quantifies the contributions by phonological contrasts to distinctions made across the lexicon. Previous research has linked particularly low values of FL to sou…
The role of attraction-repulsion dynamics in simulating the emergence of inflectional class systems
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 lingui…
Re-evaluating phoneme frequencies
Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes, Erich R. Round
Causal processes can give rise to distinctive distributions in the linguistic variables that they affect. Consequently, a secure understanding of a variable's distribution can hold…
Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics
Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes, Claire Bowern, Erich R. Round
Phylogenetic methods have broad potential in linguistics beyond tree inference. Here, we show how a phylogenetic approach opens the possibility of gaining historical insights from…