preliminary program
6/10 Wednesday
09:00 - 09:20 Welcome speech
09:20 - 09:45 Uncovering patterns of language richness with communalect structural analysis (Stephen Francis Mann, Benedikt Wimmer, Mary E. Walworth, Simon Greenhill, Russell D. Gray)
09:45 - 10:10 Typologizing glyphs: proof-of-concept of a model assessing the evolutionary dynamics of writing systems (Gerd Carling, Alexandre Arkhipov)
10:10 - 10:35 Time depth and the limits of phylogenetic inference in linguistics (Thomas Pellard, Robin Ryder, Guillaume Jacques)
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11:00 - 11:25 From points to polygons: Modeling spatial autocorrelation (David Goldstein, Muhammad Rehan)
11:25 - 11:50 How selective is selection? Integrating insights from models of micro- and macroevolution (Chundra Cathcart)
11:50 - 12:15 Context-dependent phylogenetic models of phonological change (Isaac Stead)
LUNCH
14:00 - 14:25 A high-resolution approach to phonologically-informed phylogeny (Alex Smith)
14:25 - 14:50 Ergativities over time and space: Phylogenetic (in)stability and areal divergence in ergative alignments (Roberto Zariquiey, Mariana Poblete)
14:50 - 15:15 Word family evolution in Semitic languages (Carlo Meloni, Johann Mattis List)
15:15 - 15:40 Using Correspondence Patterns to Identify Irregular Words in Cognate Sets Through Leave-One-Out Validation (Frederic Blum)
16:00 - GUIDED TOUR OF THE MUSEUM
6/11 Thursday
09:00 - 09:25 Drivers of language distribution ranges (Outi Vesakoski, Meeli Roose, Tua Nylen, Harri Tolvanen)
09:25 - 09:50 Testing theoretical hypotheses with phylogenetic tools (Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Elena Anagnostopoulou)
09:50 - 10:15 Factorizing horizontal from vertical transfer via representation learning (Gerhard Jager)
10:15 - 10:40 How long does it take to make a language (Simon Greenhill)
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11:00 - 11:25 Noun Classes, classifiers, and everything in between: A quantitative areal study of Amazonian “classifier” systems (Mariana Poblete)
11:25 - 11:50 Noun classes persist for predictive processing: Evidence from constituent order in 2,500 languages (Jayden Macklin-Cordes, Maria Copot)
11:50 - 12:15 (Annemarie Verkerk)
LUNCH
14:00 - 14:25 A German dialect phylogeny based on cultural vocabulary (Paul Widmer)
14:25 - 14:50 Areal colexification patterns in Wallacea (Miri Mertner, John Mansfield)
14:50 - 14:15 Investigating tradeoffs in the grammar with regression models and Bayesian generalized dynamic phylogenetic models (Hedvig Skirgård, Jürgen Bohnemeyer & Scott Claessens)
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15:00 - 15:25 Spatiotemporal alignment for deep understanding the language evolutionary dynamics (Menghan Zhang)
15:25 - 15:50 From correlated feature evolution to correlated spatial diffusion (Matias Guzman Naranjo)
15:50 - 16:15 Towards a comparative dialectometry (Soren Wichmann)
