This paper brings together methodological, theoretical, and empirical analysis into the
framework of linguistic diversity. It reflects both historical and contemporary research by …

Here we present an expanded version of bdproto, a database comprising phonological
inventory data from 257 ancient and reconstructed languages. These data were extracted …

The historical and geographical spread from older to more modern languages has long
been studied by examining textual changes and in terms of changes in phonetic …

Ruhlen (1994) reconstructed 27 words of the very first language. Some linguists raised
eyebrows about the words themselves, but not so much about the idea that all our …

Dialect variation is of considerable interest in linguistics and other social sciences. However,
traditionally it has been studied using proxies (transcriptions) rather than acoustic recordings …

Biological data objects often have both of the following features:(i) they are functions rather
than single numbers or vectors, and (ii) they are correlated owing to phylogenetic …

In the quarter century since the development of geometric morphometrics the community of
practitioners has largely been occupied with training issues and anatomy-based …

Many biological characteristics of evolutionary interest are not scalar variables but
continuous functions. Given a dataset of function-valued traits generated by evolution, we …

A model for fundamental frequency (F0, or commonly pitch) employing a functional principal
component (FPC) analysis framework is presented. The model is applied to Mandarin …

Historical linguistics has experienced an upsurge in methodological innovation. However,
owing to the constraints of contemporary publication, these innovations often appear in print …