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Welcome at the webpage of the The Automated Similarity Judgment Program

Published papers

Papers published or submitted

Holman, Eric W., Cecil H. Brown, Søren Wichmann, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Harald Hammarström, Hagen Jung, Dik Bakker, Pamela Brown, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Johann-Mattis List, and Dmitry Egorov. N.d. Automated dating of the world’s language families. Submitted.

Wichmann, Søren and Holman, Eric W. and Cecil H. Brown. N.d. Evaluating linguistic distance measures: A reply to Petroni and Serva. Submitted to Physica A.

Wichmann, Søren, Holman, Eric W. and Cecil H. Brown. N.d. Sound symbolism in basic vocabulary. Submitted to Entropy.

Wichmann, Søren, André Müller, and Viveka Velupillai. 2010. Homelands of the World’s language families: A quantitative approach. Diachronica (in press).

Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Johann-Mattis List, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, and Dik Bakker. Forthcoming. Glottochronology as a (non-)heuristic for genealogical language relationships. Submitted to Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.

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 lexicostatistics. 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.