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Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact
2021-03-31
Abstract excerpt
When speakers of two or more languages interact, they are likely to influence each other: contact leaves traces in the linguistic record, which in turn can reveal geographic areas of past human interaction and migration. However the complex, multi-dimensional nature of contact has hindered the development of a rigorous methodology for detecting its traces. Specifically, other factors may contribute to similarities...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e5a23f4b-cdf0-5c94-90e4-7bd457fddaf3
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.03.31.437731