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.