CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database

Language is one of the most complex of human traits. There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped its diversity, and what ongoing processes drive how it changes. We present the Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD, https://chield.excd.org/), a tool...

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Autores: G Roberts, Seán, Killin, Anton, Deb, Angarika, Sheard, Catherine, Greenhill, Simon J, Sinnemäki, Kaius, Segovia- Martín, José, Nölle, Jonas, Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs, Humphreys- Balkawill, Archie, Little, Hannah, Opie, Christopher, Jacques, Guillaume, Bromham, Lindell, Tinits, Peeter, Ross, M., Lee, Sean, Gasser, Emily, Calladine, Jasmine, Spike, Matthew, Mann, Stephen Francis, Shcherbakova, Olena, Singer, Ruth, Zhang, Shuya, Benítez Burraco, Antonio, Kliesch, Christian, Thomas-Colquhoun, Ewan, Skirgård, Hedvig, Tamariz, Monica, Passmore, Sam, Pellard, Thomas, Jordan, Fiona
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/144264
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/144264
https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzaa001
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:database
causal graphs
causal inference
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Sumario:Language is one of the most complex of human traits. There are many hypotheses about how it originated, what factors shaped its diversity, and what ongoing processes drive how it changes. We present the Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD, https://chield.excd.org/), a tool for expressing, exploring, and evaluating hypotheses. It allows researchers to integrate multiple theories into a coherent narrative, helping to design future research. We present design goals, a formal specification, and an implementation for this database. Source code is freely available for other fields to take advantage of this tool. Some initial results are presented, including identifying conflicts in theories about gossip and ritual, comparing hypotheses relating population size and morphological complexity, and an author relation network.

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