Søren Wichmann

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Søren Wichmann (born 1964) is a

Since its inception in 2011, Wichmann has been General Editor of Language Dynamics and Change.[1]

Selected books

• Wichmann, Søren & Eric W. Holman (2009). Temporal Stability of Linguistic Typological Features. München: LINCOM Europa.
• Donohue, Mark and Søren Wichmann, ed. (2008). The Typology of Semantic Alignment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Wichmann, Søren, ed. (2004). The Linguistics of Maya Writing. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
• Wichmann, Søren (1995). The Relationship among the Mixe–Zoquean Languages of Mexico. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Selected articles

• Bochkarev, Vladimir, Valery Solovyev, and Søren Wichmann (2014). "Universals versus historical contingencies in lexical evolution". Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 11 (101): 20140841.
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• Brown, Cecil H., Søren Wichmann, and David Beck (2014). "Chitimacha: a Mesoamerican language in the Lower Mississippi Valley". International Journal of American Linguistics. 80 (4): 425–474.
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• Brown, Cecil H., Eric W. Holman, and Søren Wichmann (2013). "Sound correspondences in the world's languages". Language. 89 (1): 4–29.
  S2CID 145758470.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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• Walker Robert S.; Søren Wichmann; Thomas Mailund & Curtis J. Atkisson (2012). "Cultural phylogenetics of the Tupi language family in Lowland South America". PLOS ONE. 7 (4): e35025.
  PMID 22506065
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• Holman, Eric W., Cecil H. Brown, Søren Wichmann, André Müller, Viveka Velupillai, Harald Hammarström, Sebastian Sauppe, Hagen Jung, Dik Bakker, Pamela Brown, Oleg Belyaev, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Johann-Mattis List, and Dmitry Egorov (2011). "Automated dating of the world's language families based on lexical similarity" (PDF). Current Anthropology. 52 (2): 841–875.
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• Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, Taraka Rama, and Robert S. Walker (2011). "Correlates of reticulation in linguistic phylogenies". Language Dynamics and Change. 1 (2): 205–240.
  doi:10.1163/221058212x648072.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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• Brown, Cecil H., David Beck, Grzegorz Kondrak, James K. Watters, and Søren Wichmann (2011). "Totozoquean". International Journal of American Linguistics. 77 (2): 323–372.
  S2CID 224807468.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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• Wichmann, Søren, André Müller, and Viveka Velupillai (2010). "Homelands of the world's language families: A quantitative approach". Diachronica. 27 (2): 247–276.
  doi:10.1075/dia.27.2.05wic.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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• Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, Dik Bakker, and Cecil H. Brown (2010). "Evaluating linguistic distance measures". Physica A. 389 (2): 3632–3639.
  doi:10.1016/j.physa.2010.05.011.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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• Wichmann, Søren & Eric W. Holman (2009). "Population size and rates of language change". Human Biology. 81 (2–3): 259–274.
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• Holman, Eric W., Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Viveka Velupillai, André Müller, and Dik Bakker. 2008 (2008). "Explorations in automated language classification". Folia Linguistica. 42 (2): 331–354.
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• Brown, Cecil H., Eric W. Holman, Søren Wichmann, and Viveka Velupillai (2008). "Automated classification of the world's languages: A description of the method and preliminary results". STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 61 (4): 285–308.
  S2CID 120424937.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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• Schulze, Christian, Dietrich Stauffer, and Søren Wichmann (2008). "Birth, survival and death of languages by Monte Carlo simulation". Communications in Computational Physics. 3 (2): 271–294.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Wichmann, Søren & Arpiar Saunders (2007). "How to use typological features in historical linguistic research". Diachronica. 24 (2): 373–404.
  doi:10.1075/dia.24.2.06wic
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• Holman, Eric W., Christian Schulze, Dietrich Stauffer, and Søren Wichmann (2007). "On the relation between structural diversity and geographical distance among languages: observations and computer simulations". Linguistic Typology. 11 (2): 395–423.
  S2CID 8946631.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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• Wichmann, Søren (2006). "Mayan historical linguistics and epigraphy: a new synthesis". Annual Review of Anthropology. 35: 279–294.
  doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123257
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• Wichmann, Søren (2005). "On the power-law distribution of language family sizes". Journal of Linguistics. 41: 117–131.
  S2CID 145763086
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• Dakin, Karen & Søren Wichmann (2000). "Cacao and chocolate: A Uto-Aztecan perspective". Ancient Mesoamerica. 11: 55–75.
  S2CID 162616811
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External links

• Wichmann's website
• Leiden University page Archived 2018-05-02 at the Wayback Machine
• Google Scholar Archived 2016-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Academia.edu