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ArticleRoyal Society open science2021

Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution?

Nico Neureiter, Peter Ranacher, Rik van Gijn, Balthasar Bickel, Robert Weibel

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  2. Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  4. Testing methods of linguistic homeland detection using synthetic data.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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5 authors.

Nico NeureiterUniversity Research Priority Program (URPP) Language and Space, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3719-2259
Peter RanacherUniversity Research Priority Program (URPP) Language and Space, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8680-4063
Rik van GijnDepartment of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9911-2907
Balthasar BickelUniversity Research Priority Program (URPP) Language and Space, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-9087-0565
Robert WeibelUniversity Research Priority Program (URPP) Language and Space, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2425-0077

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bayesian phylogeography has been used in historical linguistics to reconstruct homelands and expansions of language families, but the reliability of these reconstructions has remained unclear. We contribute to this discussion with a simulation study where we distinguish two types of spatial processes:

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Bayesian phylogeneticslanguage evolutionphylogeography

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PMID33614066
PMCPMC7890507

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