Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of LanguagesPeter Forster, Colin Renfrew McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2006 - 198 Seiten Evolutionary ('phylogenetic') trees were first used to infer lost histories nearly two centuries ago by manuscript scholars reconstructing original texts. Today, computer methods are enabling phylogenetic trees to transform genetics, historical linguistics and even the archaeological study of artefact shapes and styles. But which phylogenetic methods are best suited to retracing the evolution of languages? And which types of language data are most informative about deep prehistory? In this book, leading specialists engage with these key questions. Essential reading for linguists, geneticists and archaeologists, these studies demonstrate how phylogenetic tools are illuminating previously intractable questions about language prehistory. This innovative volume arose from a conference of linguists, geneticists and archaeologists held at Cambridge in 2004. |
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... inference under a model that allows both borrowing and homoplasy may be fairly challenging . Eliminating one of these two factors borrowing or homoplasy makes inference much easier . certainly 5. Comparison with models of molecular ...
... inference under a model that allows both borrowing and homoplasy may be fairly challenging . Eliminating one of these two factors borrowing or homoplasy makes inference much easier . certainly 5. Comparison with models of molecular ...
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... inference is an alternative approach to phylogenetic analysis that allows us to draw inferences from a large amount of data using powerful probabilistic models without searching for the ' optimal tree ' ( Huelsenbeck et al . 2001 ) . In ...
... inference is an alternative approach to phylogenetic analysis that allows us to draw inferences from a large amount of data using powerful probabilistic models without searching for the ' optimal tree ' ( Huelsenbeck et al . 2001 ) . In ...
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... inference of linguistic divergence times are indeed familiar nails to statisticians . However , we will depart from the tradition by being less than sanguine about whether statistics possesses , or can ever possess , the appropriate ...
... inference of linguistic divergence times are indeed familiar nails to statisticians . However , we will depart from the tradition by being less than sanguine about whether statistics possesses , or can ever possess , the appropriate ...
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Malagasy Language as a Guide to Understanding Malagasy History | 11 |
Rapid Radiation Borrowing and Dialect Continua in the Bantu Languages | 19 |
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Africa Albanian algorithms Anatolian Archaeological assumptions Bantu languages Bantu trees Bastin Bayesian binary Biology borrowing branch lengths Cambridge Chapter clade cladistics classification coded cognate cognate class cognate sets comparative computational correspondences data set data-cognate dating dialects distribution divergence Dyen East Bantu edge English estimates evidence evolutionary example Figure Forster genetic Germanic glottochronology Gray & Atkinson Greek guages Historical Linguistics Hittite Holden homoplasy Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian inference innovations islands language data language evolution language family lexical evolution lexical replacement lexicostatistics likelihood Malagasy Markov matrix maximum parsimony McDonald Institute McMahon meaning Molecular morphological Mycenaean Neighbor-Net Nichols nodes Pagel parameters phonetic phonological characters phylogenetic methods phylogenetic trees phylogeny posterior probability probability problem Proto-Indo-European rates of lexical reconstruction relationships Renfrew reticulations root semantic slot similar split splits graph statistical subgroups Swadesh Swadesh list telic tion Tocharian verbs vocabulary Warnow word lists zone