"This volume is a collection of papers presented at the International Symposium 'Let's talk about trees' organized by Kikusawa and hosted at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan on February 10, 2013."--page 1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction / Kikusawa Ritsuko and Lawrence A. Reid -- 2. Tree and Network in Systematics, Stemmatics, and Linguistics: Structural Model Selection in Phylogeny Reconstruction / Minaka Nobuhiro -- 3. Inferring Population Phylogeny from Genetic Data / Kimura Ryosuke -- 4. Jackknifing the Black Sheep: ASJP Classification Performance and Austronesian / Søren Wichmann and Taraka Rama -- 5. Freeing the Comparative Method from the Tree Model: A Framework for Historical Glottometry / Siva Kalyan and Alexandre François -- 6. Modeling the Linguistic Situation in the Philippines / Lawrence A. Reid -- 7. Macrophyletic Trees of East Asian Languages Re-examined / Weera Ostapirat -- 8. The Family Tree Model and "Dead Dialects": Eastern Middle Iranian Languages / Yoshida Yutaka (translated by Kikusawa Ritsuko) -- 9. What the Tree Model Represents: Language Change, Time Depth, and Visual Representation / Kikusawa Ritsuko.
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