Will Chang
Graduate Student
Department of Linguistics
UC Berkeley
w c h a n g A T g m a i l D O T c o m
CV
Papers
2015. Will Chang, Chundra Cathcart, David Hall, and Andrew Garrett.
Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis
.
Language
91.1:194-244.
Press coverage:
Science/AAAS News
,
New York Times
. Awards:
Best Paper in Language
.
2014. Will Chang and Lev Michael.
A relaxed admixture model of language contact
.
Language Dynamics and Change
4:1-26.
2014. Lev Michael, Will Chang, and Tammy Stark.
Exploring phonological areality in the circum-Andean region using a naive Bayes classifier
.
Language Dynamics and Change
4:27-86.
Projects
I help maintain the
South American Phonological Inventory Database
.
Talks
April 2016.
Notes on Bayesian Lexicostatistics
. LING 230.
September 2014.
A vanishing, multiple-gain lexical trait model
. Workshop Towards a Global Language Phylogeny. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena.
February 2013.
Linguistic mirages and lexical borrowing between Tongan and Samoan
. 9th International Conference On Oceanic Linguistics (COOL9). University of Newcastle, Australia.
December 2012.
Probabilistic generative models of language contact
. Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Areal Linguistic Typology. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam.