Frederic Blum
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 269
e-mail:
frederic_blum@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
About me
I am a PhD student at the group for "Computer-Assisted Language Comparison" and mainly study the history and diversity of South American Languages. My main research topic will be the history of the South American Pano-Takana language family and its relation with other language families of the area. Methodologically, I focus on Bayesian methodology to model phylolinguistic and typological patterns, and on combining the comparative method with these computational approaches.
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2022 | Doctoral researcher at MPI-EVA |
| 2019-2022 | Master of Arts in Linguistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Master's thesis: "Initial lengthening of consonants in 25 typologically diverse languages" |
| 2018-2018 | Exchange student (DAAD Scholarship) at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru |
| 2015-2019 | Bachelor of Arts at Freie Universität Berlin in Language and Society (major) and Spanish Philology (minor) Bachelor's thesis: "Syntactic nominalization in Quechua" |
Publications & Presentations
Blum, F., Barrientos, C., Ingunza, A., & List, J.-M. (2024). Cognate reflex prediction as hypothesis test for a genealogical relation between the Panoan and Takanan language families. Scientific Reports, 14: 30636. |
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Blum, F., Paschen, L., Forkel, R., Fuchs, S., & Seifart, F. (2024). Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(11), 2127-2138. |
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Blum, F., Barrientos, C., Zariquiey, R., & List, J.-M. (2024). A comparative wordlist for investigating distant relations among languages in Lowland South America. Scientific Data, 11(1): 92. |
Open AccessBlum, F., Barrientos, C., Ingunza, A., & Poirier, Z. (2023). A phylolinguistic classification of the Quechua language family. Indiana, 40(1). |
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Blum, F., & List, J.-M. (2023). Trimming phonetic alignments improves the inference of sound correspondence patterns from multilingual wordlists. In L. Beinborn, K. Goswami, S. Muradoğlu, A. Sorokin, R. Kumar, A. Scherbakov, E. M. Ponti, R. Cotterell, & E. Vylomova ( |
2025
Blum, F. (2025). How to run EDICTOR 3 locally. Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, 8(1). |
2024
Blum, F. (2024). Word-initial lengthening of consonants in non-WEIRD languages. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(11), 2094-2095. |
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Blum, F., Barrientos, C., Ingunza, A., & List, J.-M. (2024). Cognate reflex prediction as hypothesis test for a genealogical relation between the Panoan and Takanan language families. Scientific Reports, 14: 30636. |
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Blum, F., Barrientos, C., Zariquiey, R., & List, J.-M. (2024). A comparative wordlist for investigating distant relations among languages in Lowland South America. Scientific Data, 11(1): 92. |
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Blum, F., Englisch, J., Rodriguez, A. H., van Gijn, R., & List, J.-M. (2024). Resource acquisition for understudied languages: Extracting wordlists from dictionaries for computer-assisted language comparison. In N. Calzolari, M.-Y. Kan, V. Hoste, A. Lenci, & S. Sakti ( |
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Blum, F., Paschen, L., Forkel, R., Fuchs, S., & Seifart, F. (2024). Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(11), 2127-2138. |
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List, J.-M., Hill, N. W., Blum, F., & Juárez, C. (2024). Grouping sounds into evolving units for the purpose of historical language comparison. Open Research Europe, 4: 31. |
2023
Alejandra, M., & Blum, F. (2023). Introduction to the Dossier "Advances in Andean Linguistics" (Part 1) = Introducción al dossier “Avances en lingüística andina” (1º parte). Indiana, 40(1), 25-28. |
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Alejandra, M., & Blum, F. (2023). Introduction to the Dossier "Advances in Andean Linguistics" (Part 2) = Introducción al dossier “Avances en lingüística andina” (2º parte). Indiana, 40(2), 9-12. |
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Blum, F., & List, J.-M. (2023). Trimming phonetic alignments improves the inference of sound correspondence patterns from multilingual wordlists. In L. Beinborn, K. Goswami, S. Muradoğlu, A. Sorokin, R. Kumar, A. Scherbakov, E. M. Ponti, R. Cotterell, & E. Vylomova ( |
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Blum, F., Barrientos, C., Ingunza, A., & Poirier, Z. (2023). A phylolinguistic classification of the Quechua language family. Indiana, 40(1). |
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Blum, F., Barrientos, C., Ingunza, A., Blasi, D. E., & Zariquiey, R. (2023). Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA): a dataset of 52 languages. Scientific Data, 10(1): 835. |
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List, J.-M., Hill, N., Forkel, R., & Blum, F. (2023). Representing and computing uncertainty in phonological reconstruction. In N. Tahmasebi, S. Montariol, H. Dubossarsky, A. Kutuzov, S. Hengchen, D. Alfter, F. Periti, & P. Cassotti ( |
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Özsoy, O., & Blum, F. (2023). Exploring individual variation in Turkish heritage speakers’ complex linguistic productions: evidence from discourse markers. Applied Psycholinguistics, 44, 534-564. |
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Regúnaga, M. A., & Blum, F. (2023). Introducción al dossier "Avances en lingüística andina" (1º parte). INDIANA - Estudios Antropológicos sobre América Latina y el Caribe, 40(1). |
2022
Blum, F. (2022). Evaluating zero-shot transfers and multilingual models for dependency parsing and POS tagging within the low-resource language family Tupían. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (pp. 1-9). Dublin: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). |
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Zariquiey, R., Alvarado, C., Echevarria, X., Gomez, L., Gonzales, R., Illescas, M., Oporto, S., Blum, F., Oncevay, A., & Vera, J. (2022). Building an endangered language resource in the classroom: Universal dependencies for Kakataibo. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022) (pp. 3840-3851). European Language Resources Association. |
Blum, Frederic and Paschen, Ludger. Lengthening at domain boundaries Talk presented at the workshop for Spoken- and Signed-language Corpus Studies in Linguistic Typology located at the 14th Conference of the Association or Linguistic Typology. Austin, USA, on 15-17 December, 2022
Blum, Frederic and Barrientos Ugarte, Carlos and Poirier, Zoe and Ingunza, Adriano. 2021. Una aproximación filolingüística a la clasificación interna del Quechua. Talk at the 5th reunion of the Red para el Estudio de las Lenguas Andinas (RELA), Tübingen, 12.09.2021.
Lehmann, Nico, Frederic Blum, and Elisabeth Verhoeven. 2021. "The collaborative Yucatec Maya corpus Cocoyum: A model corpus architecture for indigenous language corpus collections." Talk presented at the 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC). http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74447