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Networking Phylogeny for Indo-European and Austronesian Languages

Philippe Blanchard ¹, Filippo Petroni², Maurizio Serva³ & Dimitri Volchenkov⁴

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1. Bielefeld-Bonn Stochastic Research Center, Universität Bielefeld
2. Facoltà di Economia, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
3. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università dell'Aquila
4. The Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Universität Bielefeld

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Received 23 April 2009 10:41 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009

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Bioinformatics

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• Computational linguistics
• Language phylogeny
• Indo-European languages
• Austronesian languages
• modeling
• language
• cognition

Abstract:

Harnessing cognitive abilities of many individuals, a language evolves upon their mutual interactions establishing a persistent social environment to which language is closely attuned. Human history is encoded in the rich sets of linguistic data by means of symmetry patterns that are not always feasibly represented by trees. Here we use the methods developed in the study of complex networks to decipher accurately symmetry records on the language phylogeny of the Indo-European and the Austronesian language families, considering, in both cases, the samples of fifty different languages. In particular, we support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin and the ‘express train’ model of Austronesian expansion from South-East Asia, with an essential role for the Batanes islands located between the Philippines and Taiwan.

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Blanchard , Philippe, Petroni, Filippo, Serva, Maurizio, and Volchenkov, Dimitri. Networking Phylogeny for Indo-European and Austronesian Languages. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3156.1> (2009)

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