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A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family.

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database

linguistics database

Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia

scientific article

Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics

article

Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands

scientific article

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

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan.

scientific article published on 6 May 2019

Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies?

scientific article published on 18 March 2009

Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Evolutionary dynamics of language systems

scientific article

Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity

scientific article published on 16 December 2021

How accurate and robust are the phylogenetic estimates of Austronesian language relationships?

scientific article

Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits

scientific article

Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes ⬇️

scientific article published on April 12, 2011

Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages

Languages evolve in punctuational bursts

scientific article

Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features

Links between language diversity and species richness can be confounded by spatial autocorrelation

scientific article

Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family

scientific article

Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies.

scientific article published on 4 March 2009

On the shape and fabric of human history

scientific article published on December 2010

Parasites and politics: why cross-cultural studies must control for relatedness, proximity and covariation

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Phylogemetric: A Python library for calculating phylogenetic network metrics

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe

article

Publisher Correction: Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity

correction of a scholarly article

Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Rate of language evolution is affected by population size

scientific article

Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific

scientific article published in Nature

The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: from bioinformatics to lexomics

scientific article

The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

The Potential of Automatic Word Comparison for Historical Linguistics

scientific article

The archives of history : a phylogenetic approach to the study of language

2008 doctoral thesis by Simon James Greenhill at University of Auckland

The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity

scientific article published on 03 May 2019

The evolution of traditional knowledge: environment shapes medicinal plant use in Nepal.

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

The shape and tempo of language evolution.

scientific article published on 7 April 2010

TransNewGuinea.org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

treemaker: A Python tool for constructing a Newick formatted tree from a set of classifications.

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

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