Jayden Macklin-Cordes

Jayden Macklin-Cordes

Computational linguist · Language evolution · Bayesian methods

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High-definition phonotactics reflect linguistic pasts

Published in Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-6), 2015

Typological datasets for quantitative historicallinguistic inquiry are growing in breadth, but a challenge is also to increase their depth, since advanced methods often ideally require many hundreds of traits per language.

Recommended citation: Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Erich R. Round. 2015. High-definition phonotactics reflect linguistic pasts. Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-6). Tübingen: University of Tübingen.
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Automated parsing of interlinear glossed text from page images of grammatical descriptions

Published in Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC-2020), 2020

We demonstrate fundamental viability for a technology that can assist in making a large number of linguistic data sources machine readable: the automated identification and parsing of interlinear glossed text from scanned page images.

Recommended citation: Round, Erich R., T. Mark Ellison, Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes, Sacha Beniamine. 2020. Automated parsing of interlinear glossed text from page images of grammatical descriptions. Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC-2020), 2871--2876. Marseille, France: European Languages Resources Association.
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Re-evaluating phoneme frequencies

Published in Frontiers in Psychology, 2020

Causal processes can give rise to distinctive distributions in the linguistic variables that they affect.

Recommended citation: Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Erich R. Round. 2020. Re-evaluating phoneme frequencies. Frontiers in Psychology 11.
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Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics

Published in Diachronica, 2021

Phylogenetic methods have broad potential in linguistics beyond tree inference.

Recommended citation: Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L., Claire Bowern & Erich R. Round. 2021. Phylogenetic signal in phonotactics. Diachronica. 38(2). pp. 210–258.
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Challenges of sampling and how phylogenetic comparative methods help: With a case study of the Pama-Nyungan laminal contrast

Published in Linguistic Typology, 2022

Phylogenetic methods are shrouded in a little mystery for many linguists.

Recommended citation: Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Erich R. Round. 2022. Challenges of sampling and how phylogenetic comparative methods help: With a case study of the Pama-Nyungan laminal contrast. Linguistic Typology. advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2021-0025
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