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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…
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…
Size and shape of tracked Brownian bridges
Abdulrahman Alsolami, James Burridge, Michal Gnacik
We investigate the typical sizes and shapes of sets of points obtained by irregularly tracking two-dimensional Brownian bridges. The tracking process consists of observing the path…
Statistical Physics of Language Maps in the USA
James Burridge, Bert Vaux, Michal Gnacik +1
Spatial linguistic surveys often reveal well defined geographical zones where certain linguistic forms are dominant over their alternatives. It has been suggested that these patter…
The shape of a memorised random walk
Michal Gnacik, Abdulrahman Alsolami, James Burridge
We view random walks as the paths of foraging animals, perhaps searching for food or avoiding predators while forming a mental map of their surroundings. The formation of such maps…
Birdsong dialect patterns explained using magnetic domains
James Burridge, Steven Kenney
The songs and calls of many bird species, like human speech, form distinct regional dialects. We suggest that the process of dialect formation is analogous to the physical process…