Accelerating our discovery of the linguistic past

Outputs

Software

Round, Erich R. 2021a. GlottoTrees: Phylogenetic Trees in Linguistics. (version 0.1). https://github.com/erichround/glottoTrees.

Round, Erich R. 2021b. PhyloWeights: Calculation of Genealogically-Sensitive Proportions and Averages (version 0.3). https://github.com/erichround/phyloWeights.

Publications

Lindsay-Smith, Emily, Matthew Baerman, Sacha Beniamine, Helen Sims-Williams, and Erich R Round. 2024. ‘Analogy in Inflection’. Annual Review of Linguistics 10:211-31. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030521-040935.

Round, Erich R. 2023. ‘Canonical Phonology: Resolving the Four Dilemmas of Phonological Typology’. Linguistic Typology, 27(2):267–287. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-0032

Yin, Ruihua, Jeroen van de Weijer, and Erich R. Round. 2023. ‘Frequent Violation of the Sonority Sequencing Principle in Hundreds of Languages: How Often and by Which Segments’. Linguistic Typology. 27(2):381-403. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2022-0038

Round, E., Beniamine, S., Esher, L., & Spike, M. 2022. 'Cognition and the stability of evolving complex morphology: an agent-based model'. In Andrea Ravignani et al. (eds). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) (pp. 635-642). https://evolang.org/jcole2022/proceedings/jcole2022_proceedings.pdf.

Miceli, Luisa, and Erich Round. 2022. ‘Where Have All the Sound Changes Gone? Examining the Scarcity of Evidence for Regular Sound Change in Australian Languages’. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/doi:10.1515/lingvan-2021-0094.

Round, Erich R., Rikker Dockum, and Robin J. Ryder. 2022. ‘Evolution and Trade-off Dynamics of Functional Load’. Entropy 24 (4). https://doi.org/10.3390/e24040507.

Macklin-Cordes, Jayden, and Erich R Round. 2022. ‘Challenges of Sampling and How Phylogenetic Comparative Methods Help: With a Case Study of the Pama-Nyungan Laminal Contrast’. Linguistic Typology. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-0025

Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L, Claire Bowern, and Erich R. Round. 2021. ‘Phylogenetic Signal in Phonotactics’. Diachronica 38 (2): 210–58. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.20004.mac

Invited Presentations

Round, Erich R. 2024. ‘Language’s inflection point: From cognitive spark to astounding richness’. Invited colloquium paper present at the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, Zurich, 27 February 2024.

Round, Erich R. 2023. ‘Inflection Point: From a Cognitive Spark to Astounding Linguistic Richness’. Keynote & public lecture presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Sydney, 30 November 2023.

Round, Erich R. 2023. ‘From cognitive spark to millennia of persistence: How inflection classes emerge and survive’. Invited seminar presented at University of Manchester, 23 October 2023.

Round, Erich R. 2023. ‘From a split second in the mind to millennia of persistence: How conjugation classes and declensions emerge and survive’. Invited seminar presented at Macquarie University, Sydney, 23 June 2023.

Round, Erich R., Louise Esher, and Sacha Beniamine. 2022. ‘Evolving Morphomes’. Plenary talk presented at the Analogical Patterns in Inflectional Morphology, Berlin, April 14.,

Round, Erich R. 2022. ‘The Long and Short of It:  How Lardil Got Its Deletion Rules; How the Rules Got Their Exceptions’. Presented at the Nick Evans festschrift event, Canberra, March 24.

Macklin-Cordes, Jayden, and Erich R Round. 2021. ‘Phylogenetic Comparative Methods: What All the Fuss Is about, and How to Use Them in Everyday Research’. Presented at the Language and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) webinar series 2021, Brisbane, November 4. https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/event/session/7521; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJeQ6AGDLK0

Round, Erich R. 2021. ‘Towards a Rational Evolutionary Morphology’. Presented at the Inflexional Reflections Labex-EFL, Paris, December 15. http://www.inalco.fr/evenement/journee-etudes-labex-efl-gl4-inflectional-reflections.

Presentations

Round, Erich R, Louise Esher, and Sacha Beniamine. 2023. ‘The Natural Stability of “Unnatural” Morphology’. Conference Presentation presented at the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Heidelberg, 5 September 2023. https://www.slav.uni-heidelberg.de/forschung/tagungen/ichl26/index.html.

Round, Erich R, Sacha Beniamine, and Louise Esher. 2023. ‘The Role of Paradigm-External Anchoring in Simulating the Emergence of Inflection Class Systems’. Presented at the International Symposium of Morphology 2023, Nancy, France, 14 September, 2023. https://ismo2023.ovh/fichiers/abstracts/33_ISMo_2023_Round_et_al.pdf.

Beniamine, Sacha, Cormac Anderson, Mae Carroll, Matías Guzmán Naranjo, Borja Herce, Matteo Pellegrini, Erich R Round, Helen Sims-Williams, and Tiago Tresoldi. 2023. ‘Paralex: A DeAR Standard for Rich Lexicons of Inflected Forms Cormac Anderson, Mae Carroll, Matías Guzmán Naranjo, Borja Herce, Matteo Pellegrini, Erich Round, Helen Sims-Williams, Tiago Tresoldi’. Presented at the International Symposium of Morphology 2023, Nancy, France, 13 September, 2023. https://ismo2023.ovh/fichiers/abstracts/4_ISMO_2023_Paralex.pdf.

Round, Erich R. ‘Morphophonological Deletion in Australian Languages’. 2023. Conference Presentation presented at the 10th European Australian Workshop, Cologne, 14 August 2023. https://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/allgemeine-sprachwissenschaft/vortraege-und-publikationen/10th-european-australianist-workshop.

Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L., and Erich R. Round. 2022. ‘Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in Everyday Typology’. Presented at 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bucharest, 27 August 2022.

Round, Erich R. 2022. ‘Morphomes, Models and the Mind’. Presented at the Oxford-Berlin Workshop on Analogy in Inflection, Oxford, 23 June 2022.

Round, Erich R. 2022. ‘The Long and Short of It:  How Lardil Got Its Deletion Rules; How the Rules Got Their Exceptions’. Presented at the Nick Evans festschrift event, Canberra, 24 March 2022.

Round, Erich R, and James Elhindi. 2022. ‘Sharper Evaluation of Deep-Time Hypotheses Using Both Phonological and Semantic Divergence’. Presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 5 August 2022. https://ichl.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/abstracts/373.

Round, Erich R., Louise Esher, and Sacha Beniamine. 2022. ‘Evolving Morphomes’. Plenary talk presented at the Analogical Patterns in Inflectional Morphology, Berlin, 14 April 2022. https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we05/forschung/LabEx/veranstaltungen/APIM/index1.html.

Round, Erich R., Stephen Mann, Sacha Beniamine, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Louise Esher, and Matthew Spike. 2022. ‘Cognition and the Stability of Evolving Complex Morphology: An Agent-Based Model’. In The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), edited by Andrea Ravignani, Rie Asano, Daria Valente, Francesco Ferretti, Stefan Hartman, Misato Hayashi, Yannick Jadoul, et al., 635–42. Kanazawa, Japan: Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), 2022. https://evolang.org/jcole2022/proceedings/jcole2022_proceedings.pdf.

Round, Erich R., Sacha Beniamine, and Louise Esher. 2021a. ‘Spontaneous Emergence of Inflectional Class Systems via Attraction-Repulsion Dynamics’. Presented at the American International Morphology Meeting 2021, Columbus, OH, USA, August 28. https://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/AIMM5/schedule.html.

Round, Erich R., Sacha Beniamine, and Louise Esher. 2021b. ‘The Role of Attraction-Repulsion Dynamics in Simulating the Emergence of Inflectional Class Systems’. Presented at the International Symposium of Morphology 2021, Toulouse, September 24. http://nabil.hathout.free.fr/ISMo2021/?fichier=programme.

Round, Erich R, Rikker Dockum, and Robin J Ryder. 2021a. ‘Historical Dynamics of Functional Load: A Trade-off Relationship in Pama-Nyungan V+C’. Presented at the Annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2021, Melbourne, December 6. https://als.asn.au/Conference/Conference2021/Program2021.

Round, Erich R, Rikker Dockum, and Robin J Ryder. 2021b. ‘On the Historical Evolution and Trade-off Dynamics of Functional Load’. Presented at the 5th Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, Edinburgh, December 8. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/symposium-on-historical-phonology/pdf/eshp5-abbk.pdf.

Web Tutorials

Round, Erich R. 2021. Practical phylogenetic comparative methods for linguistic typology. https://slcladal.github.io/phylo.html

Masterclasses

Round, Erich R. 2023. ‘Modelling the Dynamics of Language Change: A Guide for the Inquisitive’. Masterclass presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, 2023, Sydney, 29 November 2023.

Round, Erich R. 2023. ‘Modelling the dynamics of evolving morphology’. Masterclass presented as LabEx Chaire Internationale 2023, Université Paris Cité, Paris, March 29–April 14, 2023.

Outreach: Open Research Case Studies

Beniamine, Sacha, Erich R Round, Helen Sims-Williams, Greville G Corbett, Matthew Baerman, Matteo Pellegrini, and Mae Carroll. 2024. ‘Leading Open Data Practices in Linguistics’. Guildford, UK: University of Surrey.

Beniamine, Sacha, and Erich R Round. 2024. ‘Two Decades of Open Data for Language Diversity at the Surrey Morphology Group’. Case study. Guildford, UK: University of Surrey. https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/two-decades-open-data-language-diversity-surrey-morphology-group.

 International workshops

Analogy in Inflection. Held at the 20th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, September 3, 2022. http://www.nytud.hu/imm20/workshops/Analogy-in-Inflection.pdf

Ancient languages and Algorithms: Demystifying new methods in historical linguistics. Held at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 2 August 2022.  https://ichl.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/ichl25-workshops