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This invitational workshop on methods in phylogenetic modeling and human history is organized jointly by members of the NCCR Evolving Language and colleagues from the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig.
When: Thursday and Friday, 6-7 June 2024
Where: University of Zurich, Department of Comparative Language Science, Affolternstrasse 56, 8050 Zurich, room AFL-E-020 (**change of room**)
Please contact us if you are interested in particpating.
Download workshop program as PDF (PDF, 301 KB).
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9:00-9:30 |
Balthasar Bickel (UZH) |
Introduction: goals and challenges |
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9:30-9:45 |
Tanja Stadler (ETHZ) |
The Bayesian phylodynamics framework |
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9:45-10:00 |
Sabine Stoll (UZH) |
Entropy reduction in language learning and language change |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30-11:00 |
Russell Gray & |
Language phylodynamics: the surprising case of Vanuatu |
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11:00-11:20 |
Angela-Maria Chira |
The mosaic evolution of linguistic disparity |
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11:20-11:35 |
Paul Widmer & |
Schismogenesis |
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11:35-11:45 |
Discussion |
Theme: schismogenesis |
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11:45-13:00 |
Lunch break |
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13:00-13:15 |
Ewan Mitchell (ETHZ) |
Inferring demographic histories using genetic and linguistic data |
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13:15-13:45 |
Anna Graff (UZH) |
Using genetic admixture to identify and study language contact |
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13:45-14:05 |
Cecilia Padilla Iglesias (UZH) |
Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers |
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14:05-14:20 |
Kentaro Shimizu (UZH) |
Phylogenetic and population genetic analysis |
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14:20-14:30 |
Discussion |
Theme: genetics |
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14:30-15:00 |
Coffee break |
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15:00-15:30 |
Tim Vaughan (ETHZ) |
Recent developments in Bayesian phylodynamic methods |
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15:30-15:45 |
Anna Graff & |
A global search for linguistic areas using clustering algorithms: sBayes and beyond |
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15:45-16:15 |
Chundra Cathcart (UZH) |
Phylogenetic Distributional Modeling |
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16:15-16:30 |
John Mansfield (UZH) |
Methods for disentangling lexical and conceptual transmission |
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16:30-16:45 |
Erik Ringen (UZH) |
Causal inference and the detection of co-evolutionary contingencies using dynamic phylogenetic models |
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16:45-17:00 |
Discussion |
Theme: methods |
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18:30 |
Workshop dinner |
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9:00-9:30 |
Chundra Cathcart (UZH) |
Recent results from continuous-trait modeling |
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9:30-9:45 |
Sarah Babinski (UZH) |
Phylogenetic signal in stress |
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9:45-10:00 |
Discussion |
Theme: continuous traits |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30-10:45 |
Benedict King (MPI-EVA) |
Quick and dirty vs. slow and clean methods of detecting language contact |
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10:45-11:00 |
Paul Widmer (UZH) |
ContacTrees |
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11:00-11:15 |
Balthasar Bickel (UZH) |
Morphological complexity metrics: phylogenetic and contact signals |
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11:15-11:35 |
Peter Ranacher & Nour Efrat-Kowalsky (UZH) |
Clustering in the presence of confounders – beyond language contact |
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11:35-11:45 |
Discussion |
Theme: language contact |
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11:45-13:00 |
Lunch break |
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13:00-13:30 |
Balthasar Bickel (UZH) |
Multiple regimes and split systems |
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13:30-13:45 |
Alexandru Craevschi (UZH) |
The evolution of principal parts and paradigm leveling in Germanic clade |
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13:45-14:15 |
Chundra Cathcart (UZH) |
The coevolution of sound patterns and the lexicon |
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14:15-14:30 |
Discussion |
Theme: CTMC models 1 |
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14:30-15:00 |
Coffee break |
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15:00-15:15 |
Paul Widmer (UZH) |
Context-specific syntax reconstruction |
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15:15-15:30 |
Laura Dees (UZH) |
Evolutionary dynamics of syllable structure in Indo-European |
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15:30-15:45 |
Kim Gfeller (UZH) |
Using colexification data to find patterns of semantic change |
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15:45-16:00 |
Discussion |
Theme: CTMC models 2 |
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16:00-17:00 |
General Discussion |
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