(a) Introductory reading 

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Dunn, Michael  2015. Language phylogenies. In: Bowern & Evans (ed.s) Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. London: Routledge   pdf

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Greenhill, Simon 2015. Evolution and language: Phylogenetic analyses. In: Wright, James (ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Vol.8. Oxford: Elsevier, 370–377   pdf

 

(b) An introductory tutorial in R

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(c) A dataset of 50 basic vocabulary items for the Transeurasian language family under inspection

Not required for non-Transeurasian participants

 

(d)  Install software

• R

• RStudio Desktop - Open Source License

• Figtree

• BEAST package (BEAST, BEAUTi, TreeAnnotator, DensiTree)

• Tracer

• Python (take the latest version) 

• Text editor: Textmate (Mac), Notepad++ (Windows)

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(e)  Create an account on Github and let Nataliia (neshcheret@shh.mpg.de) know your username

 

(f) Let Nataliia know which operating system you use (Windows, Mac or Linux)