Will Chang

Biographic Data

ID773433
NAMEWill Chang
GIVEN NAMESWill
FAMILY NAMEChang
SIGNATURECHANG W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0002-4966-3708
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Associations of temperament, family functioning with loneliness trajectories in patients with breast cancer

    Open AccessChunyan He, Yang He et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2025

    Patients with breast cancer exhibit diverse trajectories of loneliness, with educational level, temperament type, and family functioning being predictive of these trajectories. Therefore, it is crucial to promptly identify populations at risk in a clinical setting and devise intervention strategies, grounded in identified trajectory characteristics and influencing factors, to enhance patient outcomes

  • Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis

    Will Chang, W S C Chang et al.ARTICLELanguage2015

    The supplementary materials contain details of our BEAST analyses.Note that in addition to the four blocks of analyses (A-D) mentioned in Experiments ( §6), there is a fifth block of eight analyses (E1-8) in which each ancestral language in A1, in turn, has its ancestry constraint removed

  • Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis

    Open AccessWill Chang, W S C Chang et al.ARTICLELanguage2015Cited by: 18References: 14

    Discussion of Indo-European origins and dispersal focuses on two hypotheses. Qualitative evidence from reconstructed vocabulary and correlations with archaeological data suggest that Indo-European languages originated in the Pontic-Caspian steppe and spread together with cultural innovations associated with pastoralism, beginning c. 6500-5500 bp. An alternative hypothesis, according to which Indo-European languages spread with the diffusion of fa…

  • A Relaxed Admixture Model of Language Contact

    Will Chang, Lev MichaelARTICLELanguage Dynamics and Change2014

    Under conditions of language contact, a language may gain features from its neighbors that it is unlikely to have gained endogenously. We describe a method for evaluating pairs of languages for potential contact by comparing a null hypothesis, in which a target language obtained all its features by inheritance, with an alternative hypothesis in which the target language obtained its features via inheritance and via contact with a proposed donor l…

  • Exploring Phonological Areality in the Circum-Andean Region Using a Naive Bayes Classifier

    Lev Michael, Will Chang et al.ARTICLELanguage Dynamics and Change2014

    This paper describes the Core and Periphery technique: a quantitative method for exploring areality that uses a naive Bayes classifier, a statistical tool for inferring class membership based on training sets assembled from members of the classes in question. The Core and Periphery technique is applied to the exploration of phonological areality in the Andes and surrounding lowland regions, based on the South American Phonological Inventory Datab…

  • Organizational predictors of outcomes of long-stay nursing home residents

    Open AccessJames E Rohrer, Elizabeth T Momany et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1993References: 3