Talks
- Wichmann, Søren: Quantitative detection of contact-induced phylogenetic reticulation. Meeting between linguists from Bremen and MPI-EVA, Dec. 15, 2011.
- Wichmann, Søren and Eric W. Holman: Languages with longer words have more lexical change. Workshop on comparing approaches to measuring linguistic differences, Gothenburg, Oct. 24-25, 2011.
- Wichmann, Søren: A comparison of two lexicostatistical approaches: cognacy scores vs. the Levenshtein distance. 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, July 25-30, 2011.
- Wichmann, Søren: Inferring patterns of language migration from lexical data. Guest lecture, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme (Dresden), April 8, 2011.
- Wichmann, Søren: Wie automatisierte Sprachvergleiche neue Erkenntnisse über Lautentsprechungen liefern können. Guest lecture, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Febr. 5, 2011.
- Wichmann, Søren: What linguistic data can tell us about prehistorical migration patterns. MPI-EVA Institute Seminar, Nov. 26, 2010.
- Wichmann, Søren: Languages, dialects, population dynamics, and rates of language change. Populations and Language Change. Organized by Lacito – CNRS, Paris, March 26, 2010.
- Müller, André: Plansprachen im Lichte einer computergestützen lexikostatistischen Analyse (ASJP) (19. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik e.V. (GIL), Berlin, November 27-29, 2009)
- Wichmann, Søren, Matthias Urban & The ASJP Consortium: Contrasting creoles and other languages using quantitative methods (APiCS Conference, MPI-EVA, 5-9 November 2009)
- Wichmann, Søren, Dik Bakker, Oleg Belyaev, Cecil Brown, Pamela Brown, Dimitry Egorov, Anthony Grant, Eric Holman, Hagen Jung, Robert Mailhammer, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai & Kofi Yapko: Toward a classification of the world's languages based on edit distances (XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space, Aug. 10-15, 2009)
- Dik Bakker, Cecil Brown, Pamela Brown, Dmitry Egorov, Anthony Grant, Eric Holman, Hagen Jung, Robert Mailhammer, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, and Søren Wichmann: “Adding typology to lexicostatistics: a combined approach to language classification” (ALT 8th Biennial Meeting University of California, Berkeley, July 23-26, 2009)
- Wichmann, Søren, Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira & The ASJP Consortium: Elbow effects: a universal feature of language taxonomies. (Start-up-Meeting of the study group "Classification and Evolution in Biology, Linguistics and History of Science", Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, June 11-12, 2009)
- Holman, Eric W.: Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates? The Swadesh Centenary Conference, MPI-EVA, Jan. 17-18, 2009.
- Bakker, Dik et al.: Borrowing from Spanish in the languages of the world. Workshop on Borrowing from Spanish, University of Amsterdam, Oct. 3, 2008.
- Bakker et al.: ASJP and borrowing. SLE, Forli, Sept. 20, 2008.
- Grant, Anthony et al.: A lexicostatistical perspective on creoles and pidgins. Seventeenth Biannual Conference of The Society for Caribbean Linguistics in conjunction with the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Cayenne, French Guiana, July 28-31, 2008.
- Wichmann, Søren et al.: A universal law of language taxonomic. Presented during the session "Studying global language dynamics through large typological and lexical databases" at the conference Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages, University of Tartu, Estonia, May 29-June 1, 2008.
- Bakker, Dik et al.: Automated language classification and the detection of borrowing. (Abstract submitted).
- Wichmann, Søren et al. : Automated lexicostatistics: results and prospects. Presented at the conference Computational and Cognitive Linguistics, Kazan State University, Dec. 6-8, 2007.
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