Un nouveau cognat partagé exclusivement par le rgyalronguique et le kiranti:
panchr.hypotheses.org/3993
It is unfortunately under a paywall, but the preprint is available at hal.science/hal-04571512
panchr.hypotheses.org/4024
Our chapter on the tree model (with @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @robinryder.bsky.social ) is at last published online: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Just published "Directional extensions in Chadic languages" by Joseph Lovestrand #cal #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
Just published "Life and death on Karas: Ten Uruangnirin texts" by Eline Visser #otc #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
New paper published today.
Although the Okhotsk culture in Hokkaido has been associated with the Nivkh since at least Kikuchi (1978), we provide the most detailed linguistic and archaeological evaluation attempted so far.
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"Two out of five Sudanese – some 21 million people – don’t have enough to eat, and nearly 14 million people have fled their homes."
I was told the Wave model in linguistics had not been formalised. Here is an attempt at it. Note that many things remain to be done, check the discussion for that.
The method/model I propose, WaST, can be used on any cognacy dataset. I'll put the code on git soon.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.08220
Conserved, catalogued, photographed, re-housed ... after 5 years work a major ethnographic collection (the Hampton Archive) is on its way back to Papua, where it will form the nucleus of a new museum ...
Le caractère 天 then apparaît dès les jiaguwen sous cette forme, représentant un personnage se tenant debout avec une tête soit carrée, soit consistant en plusieurs traits horizontaux. La prononciation...
Amuric (also known as Nivkh) is a language family found in the Lower Amur Basin and on Sakhalin Island. While geography suggests that the roots of Amu…
Comme nous l’avions montré dans Jacques et Pellard (2021), les cognats partagés entre les groupes kiranti et rgyalronguiques sont très peu nombreux, et tous partagés par d’autres branches de la famill...
The family tree remains the main metaphor for describing the evolutionary history and relationships of languages. Languages, like biological species, evolve following processes such as descent with m...
We propose a mathematical formalisation of the ``wave model'' originally developed in historical linguistics but with further applications in human sciences. This model assumes new traits appear in a population and spread to nearby populations depending on their closeness. It is mostly used to describe joint evolution of closely related populations, for example of several dialects. These situations of permanent contact are not accurately represented by its competitors based on tree structures. We built a fully Bayesian generative model where innovation spread along a fixed graph and disappear according to a death process. We then develop a Metropolis-Hastings within Gibbs sampler to sample from the posterior distribution on the graph. We test our method on simulated datasets as well as on several real dataset.
"After 3 Years of War, Sudanese Civilians Pay the Price," with commentary from Professor Alex de Waal. @csmonitor.bsky.social @sophie-neiman.bsky.social @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social
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The Fletcher School
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Three years of fighting have carved Sudan into two halves. The fight is now for the country’s center, where civilians are paying a devastating price.
