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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…
cs.CL2020★ 153 cited
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…