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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... length 5 • • 10 Exemplar word length 15 15 Figure 6.1 . Elements of text evolution in an artificial text tradition containing 21 manuscripts and 856 locations ( characters ) , with 226 observations of different words in exemplar and ...
... length 5 • • 10 Exemplar word length 15 15 Figure 6.1 . Elements of text evolution in an artificial text tradition containing 21 manuscripts and 856 locations ( characters ) , with 226 observations of different words in exemplar and ...
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... length of the edge e . We define L ( P ) , the length of a path P1 between leaves i and j , to be the sum of the lengths of the edges in the path . To ensure identifiability , we need only to show that we can compute ( P¡¡ ) for all ...
... length of the edge e . We define L ( P ) , the length of a path P1 between leaves i and j , to be the sum of the lengths of the edges in the path . To ensure identifiability , we need only to show that we can compute ( P¡¡ ) for all ...
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... lengths are nearly perfectly related and fall along a line of slope b = 2 / k = 0.5 . 0 . change from one character state to the next . A branch length of 0.5 suggests that on average we expect a 50 per cent probability of a change ...
... lengths are nearly perfectly related and fall along a line of slope b = 2 / k = 0.5 . 0 . change from one character state to the next . A branch length of 0.5 suggests that on average we expect a 50 per cent probability of a change ...
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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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