Talks and presentations

Invited talks

• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2026. Bayesian branches: Where do language trees come from? Surrey Morphology Group Expertise Session. University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23284532.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2025. Locative polyfunctionality in Australia: Function distribution is not predicted by phylogeny or contact. University of Newcastle Social Science and Linguistics Seminar Series. University of Newcastle, Australia.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2024. Towards a phylogenetic typology of Australian nominal classification. University of Newcastle Social Science and Linguistics Seminar Series. University of Newcastle, Australia.
• Copot, Maria & Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes. 2024. Thinking like a quantitative modeller. Invited masterclass for the Laboratory for Applied Language Science (LALS). University of Newcastle, Australia.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2024. Phylogenetic comparative methods in everyday typology: With a case study of Pama-Nyungan laminals. Changelings forum for historical sociolinguistics (invited talk). The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2023. Reconstructing numeral base and classifier word orders in Tibeto-Burman. University of Newcastle Linguistics Seminar Series. University of Newcastle, Australia.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2022. Typological traits in linguistic phylogenetics: (Mis)adventures with phonotactics. UMR7206 Eco-Anthropologie (EA) Seminar Series. Musée de l'Homme, CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Université de Paris, France.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2022. Trees, mountains, numerals and classifiers: Preliminary ancestral state reconstruction in Tibeto-Burman. Surrey Linguistics Circle Lunchtime Seminar. Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2022. Phylogenetic comparative methods for common typological challenges: With a case study of Pama-Nyungan laminals. DiLiS Seminar Series. Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, CNRS, Université Lyon 2, Lyon, France.
• Browne, Mitch, Jacqueline Cook, Amanda Hamilton-Holloway & Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes. 2022. Constituent order in subordinate clauses: A comparison of Mudburra, Warlmanpa and Warriyangga/Thiinma. UWA Linguistics Seminar Series. University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. Abstract
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Erich R. Round. 2021. Phylogenetic comparative methods: What all the fuss is about, and how to use them in everyday research. Language and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL) webinar. The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia. https://youtu.be/yJeQ6AGDLK0. Details

Conference presentations

• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Maria Copot. 2026. Noun classes persist for predictive processing: Evidence from constituent order in 2,500 languages [poster]. Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology (ALT XVI). Lumière University, Lyon.
• Copot, Maria & Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes. 2026. Optimal Representation Granularity in Morphological Learning [poster]. International Morphology Meeting (IMM22). Budapest, Hungary.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Maria Copot. 2026. Noun classes persist for predictive processing: Evidence from constituent order in 2,500 languages. Quantitative Cross-Linguistic Explorations of Space, Time, and Evolution (QC-LESTE). National Museum of Natural History, Paris.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L., Maria Copot, Tom Ennever & Mitch Browne. 2026. Locative polyfunctionality in Pama-Nyungan: Disentangling space, phylogeny and ahistorical factors [poster]. International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG XVI). Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L., Mitch Browne, Tom Ennever & Maria Copot. 2024. Locative functions beyond space and time: Pama-Nyungan case semantics reflect ahistorical processes [poster]. Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology (ALT XV). National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L., Mitch Browne, Tom Ennever & Maria Copot. 2024. Locative polyfunctionality in Australia: Function distribution is not predicted by phylogeny or contact. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference (ALS 2024). Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2024. Towards a phylogenetic typology of Australian nominal classification. Langues & Langage à la croisée des Disciplines (LLCD 2024). Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2022. Phylogenetic comparative methods in everyday typology. Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2022). University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
• Jódar-Sánchez, Jose Antonio, Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes & Marc Allassonnière-Tang. 2022. The evolutionary dynamics of noun classes in Torricelli languages. Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology (ALT XIV). University of Texas, Austin, USA.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L., Her, One-Soon & Marc Allassonnière-Tang. 2022. Correlated evolution of numeral base and classifier word orders in Tibeto-Burman languages [poster]. Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology (ALT XIV). University of Texas, Austin, USA.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2022. Incorporating typological features in tree inference: Lessons from phonotactics. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25). Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
• Browne, Mitch & Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes. 2022. A statistical analysis of word-initial apical neutralisation in Warlmanpa. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference (ALS 2022). University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• Browne, Mitch, Jacqueline Cook, Amanda Hamilton-Holloway & Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes. 2022. Constituent order in subordinate clauses: A comparison of Mudburra, Warlmanpa and Warriyangga/Thiinma. Australian Languages Workshop (ALW). University of Queensland Moreton Bay Research Station, North Stradbroke Island, Australia.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2021. Trials and tribulations of tree inference: The challenge of phonotactics in phylogenetics and why it matters. Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference (ALS 2021). La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2021. Unstable trees: The challenge of frequency and phonology in phylogenetics. Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology. University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Abstract
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Erich R. Round. 2020. Zipf's Law? Re-evaluating phoneme frequencies. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference (ALS 2020). Online conference, Australia.
• Round, Erich R. & Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes. 2019. Clouded vision: Why insights improve when uncertainty about data is made explicit. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24). Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/s/WOmUM73NVJQFqf6.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Erich R. Round. 2019. Historical signal beyond the cognate: Phonotactics in linguistic phylogenetics. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24). Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/s/zN5AbJ4fXoVR0ax.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Erich R. Round. 2018. Phylogeny in phonotactics: A multivariate approach for stronger historical signal. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference (ALS 2018). University of South Australia, Adelaide.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. 2017. High-definition phonotactic typology in Sahul: Choosing the data-rich approach. Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology (ALT XII). Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5861067.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L., Nathaniel L. Blackbourne, Thomas J. Bott, Jacqueline Cook, T. Mark Ellison, Jordan Hollis, Edith E. Kirlew, Genevieve C. Richards, Sanle Zhao & Erich R. Round. 2017. Robots who read grammars [poster]. CoEDL Fest. Alexandra Park Conference Centre, Alexandra Headlands, QLD, Australia. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4625248.
• Hollis, Jordan, Genevieve C. Richards, Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes & Erich R. Round. 2016. The Cape York lexical records of Bruce Sommer. Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference (ALS 2016). Monash University, Caulfield, Australia. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4299377.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L., Steven P. Moran & Erich R. Round. 2016. Evaluating information loss from phonological dimensionality reduction. SST2016 Satellite Symposium: The role of predictability in shaping human language sound patterns. Western Sydney University, Australia. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4465976. Abstract
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Erich R. Round. 2016a. High-definition phonotactic data contain phylogenetic signal [poster]. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2016). Washington, DC. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4534238.
• Macklin-Cordes, Jayden L. & Erich R. Round. 2016b. Reflections of linguistic history in quantitative phonotactics. Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference (ALS2016). Monash University, Caulfield, Australia. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4299365.
• Round, Erich R., Jacqueline Cook, T. Mark Ellison, Jordan Hollis, Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes & Genevieve C. Richards. 2016. The grammar harvester. Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference (ALS 2016). Monash University, Caulfield, Australia.
• Round, Erich R. & Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes. 2015. On the design, in practice, of typological microvariables. New Developments in the Quantitative Study of Languages. Helsinki, Finland.
• Round, Erich R. & Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes. 2014. Next-generation typological variables: From theory to practice, and back again. Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference (ALS 2014). University of Newcastle, Australia.