Soren Wichmann
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Recent Articles
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Fingerprinting conflict: A comparative model with applications to archaeological and historical data
Wichmann S, Loy A, Andersen A, Bleile R, Jonjic D, Kneisel J, et al.
PLoS One
. 2025 Feb;
20(2):e0313895.
PMID: 39982884
This paper is envisioned as a primarily methodological contribution towards a more sophisticated and systematic approach to conflict research in archaeology and history. Studies of conflicts in these fields have...
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Wang T, Wichmann S, Xia Q, Ran Q
PNAS Nexus
. 2023 Dec;
2(12):pgad384.
PMID: 38059263
Multiple factors of the natural environment have been found to impact and mold the phonetic patterns of human speech, among which the potential correlation between sonority and temperature has garnered...
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Wichmann S
Front Psychol
. 2023 Jul;
14:1128461.
PMID: 37425175
The aim of this paper is to show evidence of a statistical dependency of the presence of tones on word length. Other work has made it clear that there is...
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Wichmann S, Holman E
PLoS One
. 2023 Jan;
18(1):e0281041.
PMID: 36706125
Based on a dataset representing close to ¾ of the world's languages we investigate differences among languages and between items on the Swadesh list with regard to mean word length...
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Barbieri C, Blasi D, Arango-Isaza E, Sotiropoulos A, Hammarstrom H, Wichmann S, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2022 Nov;
119(47):e2122084119.
PMID: 36399547
Human history is written in both our genes and our languages. The extent to which our biological and linguistic histories are congruent has been the subject of considerable debate, with...
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Seifart F, Strunk J, Danielsen S, Hartmann I, Pakendorf B, Wichmann S, et al.
Linguist Vanguard
. 2022 Jul;
7(1):20190063.
PMID: 35880210
Words in utterance-final positions are often pronounced more slowly than utterance-medial words, as previous studies on individual languages have shown. This paper provides a systematic cross-linguistic comparison of relative durations...
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Wichmann S, Rama T
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
. 2021 Mar;
376(1824):20200202.
PMID: 33745308
Two families of quantitative methods have been used to infer geographical homelands of language families: Bayesian phylogeography and the 'diversity method'. Bayesian methods model how populations may have moved using...
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Rama T, Wichmann S
PLoS One
. 2020 Aug;
15(8):e0236522.
PMID: 32785236
In current practice, when dating the root of a Bayesian language phylogeny the researcher is required to supply some of the information beforehand, including a distribution of root ages and...
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Seifart F, Strunk J, Danielsen S, Hartmann I, Pakendorf B, Wichmann S, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2018 May;
115(22):5720-5725.
PMID: 29760059
By force of nature, every bit of spoken language is produced at a particular speed. However, this speed is not constant-speakers regularly speed up and slow down. Variation in speech...
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Holman E, Wichmann S
Syst Biol
. 2016 Nov;
66(4):604-610.
PMID: 27837192
Since the early 1970s, biologists have debated whether evolution is punctuated by speciation events with bursts of cladogenetic changes, or whether evolution tends to be of a more gradual, anagenetic...