Peter Bellwood

Language families and the history of human migration

School of Archaeology
and Anthropology
Australian National University, Canberra
Peter.Bellwood@anu.edu.au

Bernard Comrie

Languages and Genes: Vertical and Horizontal Transmission

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
AND
Department of Linguistics
University of California Santa Barbara
comrie@eva.mpg.de
Peter de Knijff
Department of Human Genetics
Leiden University Medical Center
The Netherlands
knijff@lumc.nl

Steve Evans

Comparing reconstruction methods for linguistic phylogenies

The paper containing the experimental results presented at the end of the talk is available here.

Department of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
evans@stat.Berkeley.EDU

Jane Hill

"External evidence" in historical linguistic argumentation: Subgrouping in Uto-Aztecan

Dept. of Anthropology
University of Arizona
jhill@email.arizona.edu

Brett Kessler

Better than chance? Randomization models for evaluating whether lexical similarity implies historical connection.

Psychology Department
Washington University in St. Louis
bkessler@wustl.edu

Johanna Nichols

Typology in the service of classification

Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of California,
Berkeley
johanna@berkeley.edu

Mark Stoneking

Disentangling Genes, Geography, and Language

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
stoneking@eva.mpg.de

Tandy Warnow

Detecting language contact in Indo-European

The University of Texas at Austin - ICMB
tandy@cs.utexas.edu