Chundra Cathcart

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• Ebert, C., Cathcart, C., Bickel, B., & Widmer, P. (2025). Usage-based evolutionary models reveal context-specific word order change in Indo-European Language Dynamics and Change, 15, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10039
• Cathcart, C. (2025). Good enough for Galton, and much more: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo Linguistic Typology, 29, 559–562. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2025-0030
• Cathcart, C. (2025). Outstanding problems in Persian historical phonology: toward a quantitative solution In A. Korangy & B. Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari (Eds.), The Handbook of Persian Dialects and Dialectology (pp. 149–175). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8151-9_5
• Cathcart, C., & Bickel, B. (2025). Linguistic evolution in time and space: Addressing the methodological challenges In L. Raviv & C. Boeckx (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution (pp. 391–421). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192886491.013.20
• Bosshard, A. B., Burkart, J. M., Merlo, P., Cathcart, C., Townsend, S. W., & Bickel, B. (2024). Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocal system Royal Society Open Science, 11, 218–240. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240218
• Cathcart, C., & Jäger, G. (2024). Exploring the evolutionary dynamics of sound symbolism Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1076–1083. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tc941m4
• Craevschi, A., Babinski, S., & Cathcart, C. (2024). Finding proportionality in computational approaches to morphological change Proceedings of the International Conference on the Evolution of Language, 83. https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3587960
• Herce, B., & Cathcart, C. A. (2024). Short vs long stem alternations in Romance verbal inflection: the S-morphome Transactions of the Philological Society, 122, 49–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12271
• Cathcart, C. A. (2024). Multiple evolutionary pressures shape identical consonant avoidance in the world’s languages Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121, e2316677121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2316677121
• Cathcart, C. (2024). Review of Frederik Hartmann: Germanic phylogeny Folia Linguistica Historica, 45, 325–330. https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2048
• Cathcart, C. A. (2023). Paradigmatic heterogeneity and homogenization: probing Paul’s principle. In D. Kavitskaya & A. Yu (Eds.), The life cycle of language: past, present, and future (pp. 371–385). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845818.003.0023
• Cathcart, C. (2023). Rate variation in language change: Toward distributional phylogenetic modeling In F. A. Karakostis & G. Jäger (Eds.), Biocultural Evolution: An Agenda for Integrative Approaches (pp. 179–202). Kerns Verlag. https://doi.org/10.51315/9783935751384.008
• Rochant, N., Allassonnière-Tang, M., & Cathcart, C. (2022). The evolutionary trends of noun class systems in Atlantic languages In A. Ravignani, R. Asano, & D. Valente (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp. 624–631). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistic. https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3398549
• Carling, G., Cathcart, C., & Round, E. (2022). Reconstructing the origins of language families and variation In A. Lock, C. Sinha, & N. Gontier (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution (p. online). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198813781.013.34
• Cathcart, C. A. (2022). Dialectal layers in West Iranian: A hierarchical dirichlet process approach to linguistic relationships Transactions of the Philological Society, 120, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968x.12225
• Cathcart, C. (2022). The evolution of similarity avoidance: a phylogenetic approach to phonotactic change Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, online. https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v10i0.5434
• Cathcart, C., Herce, B., & Bickel, B. (2022). Decoupling Speed of Change and Long-Term Preference in Language Evolution: Insights From Romance Verb Stem Alternations Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Kanazawa. https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3398549
• Carling, G., & Cathcart, C. (2021). Reconstructing the evolution of Indo-European grammar Language, 97, 561–598. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0253
• Carling, G., & Cathcart, C. (2021). Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns Diachronica, 38, 358–412. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.19043.car
• Cathcart, C., & Rama, T. (2020). Disentangling dialects: a neural approach to Indo-Aryan historical phonology and subgrouping In R. Fernández & T. Linzen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (pp. 620–630). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.conll-1.50.pdf
• Cathcart, C., Hölzl, A., Jäger, G., Widmer, P., & Bickel, B. (2020). Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian: A phylogenetic approach Language Dynamics and Change, 11, 273–325. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10013
• Cathcart, C., & Yager, J. (2020). Linguistic stability and change under small-scale egalitarian language contact: a mixture model approach (S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B. Armstrong, Eds.; pp. 3109–3115). Cognitive Science Society. https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci20/papers/0776/0776.pdf
• Cathcart, C., & Wandl, F. (2020). In search of isoglosses: continuous and discrete language embeddings in Slavic historical phonology In G. Nicolai, K. Gorman, & R. Cotterell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology (pp. 233–244). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.sigmorphon-1.28
• Cathcart, C. A. (2020). A probabilistic assessment of the Indo-Aryan Inner–Outer Hypothesis Journal of Historical Linguistics, 10, 42–86. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.18038.cat
• Cathcart, C. (2019). Gaussian Process Models of Sound Change in Indo-Aryan Dialectology 254–264. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-4732.pdf
• Cathcart, C. (2019). Toward a deep dialectological representation of Indo-Aryan In M. Zampieri (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (pp. 110–119). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-1411
• Carling, G., Larsson, F., Cathcart, C. A., Johansson, N., Holmer, A., Round, E., & Verhoeven, R. (2018). Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (DiACL)—A database for ancient language typology PLoS ONE, 13, e0205313. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205313
• Cathcart, C. A. (2018). Modeling linguistic evolution: a look under the hood Linguistics Vanguard, 4, n/a. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2017-0043
• Cathcart, C., Carling, G., Larsson, F., Johansson, N., & Round, E. (2018). Areal pressure in grammatical evolution: An Indo-European case study Diachronica, 35, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.16035.cat
• Cathcart, C. (2017). Decomposability and Frequency in the Hindi/Urdu Number System 1733–1738.
• Cathcart, C. (2014). Vedic Post-Lexical Retroflexion: Opacity and Diachrony 50th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago.