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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…
Public efforts to reduce disease transmission implied from a spatial game
James Burridge, Michal Gnacik
One approach to understand people's efforts to reduce disease transmission, is to consider the effect of behaviour on case rates. In this paper we present a spatial infection-reduc…
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…
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…
Spatial evolution of human dialects
James Burridge
The geographical pattern of human dialects is a result of history. Here, we formulate a simple spatial model of language change which shows that the final result of this historical…