DTT/HELAN2 - Marc TANG (DDL): "EVOGRAM: Modeling the evolution of language systems with linguistic and non-linguistic factors"
14h-15h30
ISH - salle Ennat Léger
Both linguistic and non-linguistic factors have been attested to have an effect on the emergence and the evolution of language systems. On the one hand, linguistic factors relate to semantic, morphosyntax, phonology, and pragmatics. On the other hand, non-linguistic factors may relate to environmental factors, iconicity, and cognitive biases. The project aims at 1) compiling and host a database of linguistic structure and non-linguistic factors 2) modeling with computational methods the horizontal/proximal transmission and vertical/phylogenetic transmission of language systems. Language areas and families for which data is robust are used to tune the model. Then, the analysis is expanded to languages with scarce data and/or an opaque evolutionary process of language systems.