Detecting contact in language trees: a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer

N Neureiter, P Ranacher, N Efrat-Kowalsky… - Humanities and Social …, 2022 - nature.com
Phylogenetic trees are a central tool for studying language evolution and have wide
implications for understanding cultural evolution as a whole. For example, they have been …

[HTML][HTML] The dialect chain of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family: A new analysis using systematic Bayesian phylogenetics

GA Kaiping, M Klamer - Language Dynamics and Change, 2022 - brill.com
This paper refines the subgroupings of the Timor-Alor-Pantar (tap) family of Papuan
languages, using a systematic Bayesian phylogenetics study. While recent work indicates …

Lateral transfer in stochastic Dollo models

LJ Kelly, GK Nicholls - 2017 - projecteuclid.org
Lateral transfer in Stochastic Dollo models Page 1 The Annals of Applied Statistics 2017, Vol.
11, No. 2, 1146–1168 DOI: 10.1214/17-AOAS1040 © Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2017 …

TraitLab: a Matlab package for fitting and simulating binary tree-like data

LJ Kelly, GK Nicholls, RJ Ryder, D Welch - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
TraitLab is a software package for simulating, fitting and analysing tree-like binary data
under a stochastic Dollo model of evolution. The model also allows for rate heterogeneity …

Likelihood calculation in a multistate model of vocabulary evolution for linguistic dating

P Rönchen, T Wiklund, H Hammarström - Language Dynamics and …, 2024 - brill.com
Computational methods of language dating make inferences about the divergence times of
protolanguages by evaluating the patterns of inheritance in the vocabulary of modern …

Pseudo-marginal inference for CTMCs on infinite spaces via monotonic likelihood approximations

M Biron-Lattes, A Bouchard-Côté… - … of Computational and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Bayesian inference for Continuous-Time Markov chains (CTMCs) on countably
infinite spaces is notoriously difficult because evaluating the likelihood exactly is intractable …

Some contributions to computational Bayesian methods with application to phylolinguistics

G Clarté - 2021 - theses.hal.science
This work is the concatenation of three papers, all revolving around Bayesian statistics. The
first one concerns Bayesian phylogenetical inference with application to historical linguistics …