The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm
absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo …

An elicitation task was conducted with speakers of Japonic varieties to investigate whether
stimuli of varying sensory modalities (eg audio, visual, tactile etc.) were more or less likely to …

Linguistic variation in space reflects patterns of social interaction. Gravity models have been
successfully used to capture the role of urban centers in the dissemination of innovations in …

This contribution theorizes the historical dynamics of so-called language isolates, languages
which cannot be demonstrated to belong to any known language family. On the basis of a …

In their recent book, Ladyman and Wiesner (What is a complex system?, Yale University
Press, 2020) delineate the bounds of the exciting interdisciplinary field of complexity …

Background: While several acoustic voice metrics are available for clinical voice
assessment, there remains a significant need for reliable and ecologically valid tools. The …

Background A complex interaction and mutual influence exists among landscapes, cultures,
and landraces, with rice culture being a typical embodiment of this relationship. The …

In this paper, we analyse spatial variation in the Japanese dialectal lexicon by assembling a
set of methodologies using theories in variationist linguistics and GIScience, and tools used …

The songs of many passerine birds consist of notes temporally arranged into vocal
sequences following syntactic structures and function both in courtship and territorial …

Previous work on colour lexicons focussed on universal patterns in their structure and
evolution. We collected new colour naming data in Japanese and three under-described …