Papers and theses published or submitted

• Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman. Forthc. Languages with longer words have more lexical change (For the proceedings of the Workshop on Comparing Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, Gothenburg, Oct. 24-25, 2011).

• Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, and Robert Walker. Submitted. Causes and consequences of linguistic phylogenetic reticulation.

• Brown, Cecil H., Eric W. Holman, and Søren Wichmann. Submitted. Sound correspondences in the world’s languages.

• Murilo Castro de Oliveira, Paulo, Adriano O. Sousa, and Søren Wichmann. Forthc. On the disintegration of (proto-)languages International Journal for the Sociology of Language.

• Wichmann, Søren and Matthias Urban. Forthc. Towards an automated classification of Englishes. In: Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth C. Traugott (eds). Handbook on the History of English: Rethinking Approaches to the History of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Holman, Eric W., Cecil H. Brown, Søren Wichmann, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Harald Hammarström, Sebastian Sauppe, Hagen Jung, Dik Bakker, Pamela Brown, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Johann-Mattis List, and Dmitry Egorov. 2011. Automated dating of the world’s language families based on lexical similarity. Current Anthropology 52.6: 841-875.

• Wichmann, Søren, Taraka Rama, and Eric W. Holman. 2011. Phonological diversity, word length, and population sizes across languages: The ASJP evidence. Linguistic Typology 15: 177-197. Online Supplementary Materials.

• Serva, Maurizio, Filippo Petroni, Dima Volchenkov, and Søren Wichmann. 2011. Dialects of Madagascar and the peopling of the island. Journal of the Royal Society Interface doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0228. Preprint.

• Huff, Paul. 2010. PyAline: Automatically Growing Language Family Trees Using The ALINE Distance.M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University.
Accompanying downloads: ASJP input files and strict Ethnologue trees for individual families; ASJP input files and modified Ethnologue trees for individual families.

• Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, Dik Bakker, and Cecil H. Brown. 2010. Evaluating linguistic distance measures. Physica A 389: 3632-3639 (doi:10.1016/j.physa.2010.05.011).

• Wichmann, Søren, Holman, Eric W., and Cecil H. Brown. 2010. Sound symbolism in basic vocabulary. Entropy 12.4: 844-858.

• Wichmann, Søren, André Müller, and Viveka Velupillai. 2010. Homelands of the world’s language families: A quantitative approach. Diachronica 27.2: 247-276.

• Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Johann-Mattis List, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, and Dik Bakker. 2010. Glottochronology as a heuristic for genealogical language relationships. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 17.4: 303-316.

• Bakker, Dik, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Pamela Brown, Dmitry Egorov, Robert Mailhammer, Anthony Grant, and Eric W. Holman. 2009. Adding typology to lexicostatistics: a combined approach to language classification. Linguistic Typology 13: 167-179.

• Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Viveka Velupillai, André Müller, and Dik Bakker. 2008. Advances in automated language classification. In Arppe, Antti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Urpu Nikanne (eds), Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics, 40-43. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.

• Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Viveka Velupillai, André Müller, and Dik Bakker. 2008. Explorations in automated language classification. Folia Linguistica 42.2: 331-354.

• Brown, Cecil H., Eric W. Holman, Søren Wichmann, and Viveka Velupillai. 2008. Automated classification of the world's languages: A description of the method and preliminary results. STUF – Language Typology and Universals  61.4: 285-308.