A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to reconstruct major branches in the linguistic tree. The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a ...

Historical, comparative and typological linguistics collectively constitute an interdisciplinary endeavour aimed at reconstructing language histories, excavating systematic patterns across diverse ...

The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a tree. If you’re reading this in English, you’re on a branch that traces back to a common ancestor with Scots, which traces back to a ...

PhD in Linguistic Anthropology with a minor in Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2018 Jessica Fae Nelson is a linguistic anthropologist whose work focuses on community-based language revitalization, ...

There are currently ∼7,000 different living human languages. The peak of language diversity may have been ∼10,000 years ago when up to 20,000 different languages might have been spoken. Languages ...

A new article describes an experiment that illustrates how the classical method for the reconstruction of unattested languages can also be used to predict hitherto undocumented words in poorly ...

Jessica Fae Nelson is a linguistic anthropologist whose work focuses on community-based language revitalization, indigeneity, and language and social meaning. Her research interests also include ...