cad a22 4500 555163407 20200627060551.0 cr unu---uuuuu 190202e20180403xx s 000 0 eng 10.5167/uzh-166002 doi 10.1515/lingvan-2017-0043 doi (ZORA)oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:166002 490 ddc 890 ddc 410 ddc Cathcart Chundra Aroor Modeling linguistic evolution: a look under the hood [Elektronische Daten] [Chundra Aroor Cathcart] openAccess eu-repo This paper takes a detailed look at some popular models of evolution used in contemporary diachronic linguistic research, focusing on the continuous-time Markov model, a particularly popular choice. I provide an exposition of the math underlying the CTM model, seldom discussed in linguistic papers. I show that in some work, a lack of explicit reference to the underlying computation creates some difficulty in interpreting results, particularly in the domain of ancestral state reconstruction. I conclude by adumbrating some ways in which linguists may be able to exploit these models to investigate a suite of factors which may influence diachronic linguistic change. Department of Comparative Linguistics zora Linguistics Vanguard 4(1):n/a https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/166002/1/Cathcart_Modeling.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 1 Journal Article PeerReviewed zora ZORA ZORA ZORA Journal Article openAccess ZORA 856 40 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/166002/1/Cathcart_Modeling.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ZORA 100 1- Cathcart Chundra Aroor ZORA 773 0- Linguistics Vanguard 4(1):n/a