Nour Efrat-Kowalsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 10158946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nour Efrat-Kowalsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nour |
| FAMILY NAME | Efrat-Kowalsky |
| SIGNATURE | EFRAT-KOWALSKY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5929-4897 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Text and the City
This paper presents the first case of dramatic and large-scale loss of linguistic diversity. Language death has been part of our history as long as languages were spoken, but in the fourth millennium bce urbanisation and a growing regional economy caused a decrease in both language and typological diversity on a much larger scale than ever before. The first cities in Mesopotamia had developed writing and administration which centralised power and…
Detecting contact in language trees
Phylogenetic trees are a central tool for studying language evolution and have wide implications for understanding cultural evolution as a whole. For example, they have been the basis of studies on the evolution of musical instruments, religious beliefs and political complexity. Bayesian phylogenetic methods are transparent regarding the data and assumptions underlying the inference. One of these assumptions—that languages change independently—is…
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Text and the City
This paper presents the first case of dramatic and large-scale loss of linguistic diversity. Language death has been part of our history as long as languages were spoken, but in the fourth millennium bce urbanisation and a growing regional economy caused a decrease in both language and typological diversity on a much larger scale than ever before. The first cities in Mesopotamia had developed writing and administration which centralised power and…
Detecting contact in language trees
Phylogenetic trees are a central tool for studying language evolution and have wide implications for understanding cultural evolution as a whole. For example, they have been the basis of studies on the evolution of musical instruments, religious beliefs and political complexity. Bayesian phylogenetic methods are transparent regarding the data and assumptions underlying the inference. One of these assumptions—that languages change independently—is…
Anthropology (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Bayesian inference (1 work) · Bayesian probability (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (1 work)