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@article{item_3258948,
title = {{Detecting non-tree-like signal using multiple tree topologies}},
author = {Verkerk, Annemarie},
language = {eng},
issn = {2210-2116; 2210-2124},
doi = {10.1075/jhl.17009.ver},
publisher = {John Benjamins},
address = {Amsterdam},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-01},
abstract = {{Recent applications of phylogenetic methods to historical linguistics have been criticized for assuming a tree structure in which ancestral languages differentiate and split up into daughter languages, while language evolution is inherently non-tree-like (Fran{\c{c}}ois 2014; Blench 2015: 32{\textendash}33). This article attempts to contribute to this debate by discussing the use of the multiple topologies method (Pagel {\&} Meade 2006a) implemented in BayesPhylogenies (Pagel {\&} Meade 2004). This method is applied to lexical datasets from four different language families: Austronesian (Gray, Drummond {\&} Greenhill 2009), Sinitic (Ben Hamed {\&} Wang 2006), Indo-European (Bouckaert et al. 2012), and Japonic (Lee {\&} Hasegawa 2011). Evidence for multiple topologies is found in all families except, surprisingly, Austronesian. It is suggested that reticulation may arise from a number of processes, including dialect chain break-up, borrowing (both shortly after language splits and later on), incomplete lineage sorting, and characteristics of lexical datasets. It is shown that the multiple topologies method is a useful tool to study the dynamics of language evolution.}},
journal = {{Journal of Historical Linguistics}},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
pages = {9--69},
}