Talk at CREST seminar on language diversification
Below are the slides from my talk earlier today at the PhD students’ seminar (which, for the occasion, I might refer to as the CREST young researchers’ seminar – I am sure our previous speaker will not mind!). The slides, in French, are about my DPhil with Geoff Nicholls on Phylogenetic Models of Language Diversification.
Relevant papers:
This Significance Magazine
http://www.significancemagazine.org/view/index.html
looks amazing! Thanks for the link, I didn’t know about it.
Have people yet looked to phylogenetic models for the evolution of alphabets? cf. this link for the armenian alphabet: http://www.tacentral.com/manuscripts_miniatures/images/bigmap.jpg
Not that I know of. But I don’t think there would be that much to infer: as your link shows, we already know pretty well how those alphabets evolved. I am aware of work on a smaller time scale: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00349.x/abstract;jsessionid=15436DC2D7D77E9E8C3852B84517EBC6.d02t02