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List of works by Claire Bowern

A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

scientific article (publication date: 21 September 2016)

Bardi

CHIRILA

database of the indigenous languages of Australia

Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan

scholarly article by Claire Bowern & Quentin D. Atkinson published 2012 in Language

Correlates of Language Change in Hunter-Gatherer and Other ‘Small’ Languages

D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Does lateral transmission obscure inheritance in hunter-gatherer languages?

scientific article

Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Fieldwork in Contact Situations

From Songlines to genomes: Prehistoric assisted migration of a rain forest tree by Australian Aboriginal people.

scientific article

Historical linguistics in Australia: trees, networks and their implications

scientific article published on December 12, 2010

Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world’s most linguistically diverse nation

scientific article

Linguistic Fieldwork

article

Linguistics: evolution and language change

scientific article

Loan and Inheritance Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Ethnobiological Systems

Mergers in Bardi: contextual probability and predictors of sound change

On numeral complexity in hunter-gatherer languages

Out of Africa? The logic of phoneme inventories and founder effects

article

Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems.

scientific article

Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution

Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity

article

Quantifying uncertainty in the phylogenetics of Australian numeral systems.

scientific article published in September 2015

Reappraising the Effects of Language Contact in the Torres Strait

Rejection of a serial founder effects model of genetic and linguistic coevolution.

scientific article published in February 2012

Reply to Nash: Color terms are lost, despite missing data

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Sound symbolism in the languages of Australia

scientific article

The Indo-European controversy and Bayesian phylogenetic methods

The Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages

article

The global geography of human subsistence

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

The origin and expansion of Pama–Nyungan languages across Australia

article

The riddle of Tasmanian languages

scientific article published on September 26, 2012

The typological implications of Bardi complex predicates

The world’s hotspot of linguistic and biocultural diversity under threat

preprint

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity

article

Unanswered problems in language evolution

scientific article published on 01 January 2018