Publications

2024

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   Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies

   Christopher D Buckley, Emma Kopp, Thomas Pellard, Robin J Ryder, and Guillaume Jacques

   Aug 2024

   The paper investigates the evolution of languages and weaving technologies among Kra-Dai peoples in southwest China and southeast Asia, using Bayesian Markov-Chain Monte Carlo methods to analyze phylogenies. Languages and looms evolved in related but different ways. Hlai speakers of Hainan are outgroups in both linguistic and loom phylogenies. Looms used by speakers of closely related languages tend to be similar.

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   @article{buckley2024contrasting,
     title = {Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies},
     author = {Buckley, Christopher D and Kopp, Emma and Pellard, Thomas and Ryder, Robin J and Jacques, Guillaume},
     year = {2024},
     month = aug,
     publisher = {OSF},
   }