Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact
P. Ranacher, N. Neureiter, R. van Gijn, B. Sonnenhauser, A. Escher, R. Weibel, P. Muysken, B. Bickel
The paper introduces sBayes, a Bayesian clustering algorithm to detect geographic language contact areas while accounting for inheritance and universal preference confounders, using simulated data and case studies in South America and the Balkans.
bioRxiv · Mar 31, 2021Evolutionary Biology