Workshop on Mathematical Modelling of Linguistic Relationships
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, April 17-18, 1995
The
full version
of this announcement is available.
Workshop organized by Tandy Warnow (Computer and Information Science,
U. of Pennsylvania) and Don Ringe (Linguistics, U. of Pennsylvania).
Tentative schedule (including time for discussion after each talk):
Monday, April 17
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8.30-9.00:
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Coffee
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9.00-9.30:
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Introductory remarks
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9.30-12.00:
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A character-based method for inferring evolutionary trees.
Three interrelated presentations.
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Historical and methodological overview of the problem,
Don Ringe, U. of Pennsylvania
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Computational aspects, Tandy Warnow, U. of Pennsylvania
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Indo-European, Ann Taylor, U. of Pennsylvania
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12.00-1.30:
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Lunch
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1.30-3.00:
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Shaped by some common contingency. historically but not
genetically related, Johanna Nichols, U. California at Berkeley
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3.00-3.30:
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Coffee
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3.30-5.00:
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Mathematical methods in dialectology, Sheila Embleton,
York U.
Tuesday, April 18
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8.30-9.00:
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Coffee
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9.00-10.30:
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Modelling the time course of language change,
Anthony Kroch, U. of Pennsylvania
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10.30-12.00:
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title to be announced, William Labov, U. of Pennsylvania
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12.00-1.30:
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Lunch
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1.30-3.00:
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The mathematics of n-way comparison, Bill Poser,
U. of Northern British Columbia
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3.00-5.00:
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General discussion
All sessions will be held in the large conference room at Institute
for Research in Cognitive Science, 3401 Walnut St., West Entrance, 4th
Floor. The public is invited to attend. Information about accomodations
is available in the full version of this announcement.