This is a blog post that I’ve had in mind for awhile, and as I was working on it I realized that there is a bit of groundwork needed. Part of that groundwork was laid in a previous post where I showed.. (more)

In a previous post I showed a simple way to control for language family and area with categorical variables in a linear mixed model using Python. In a more recent post I showed how we can plot languag.. (more)

When conducting comparative studies on linguistic features, we are essentially observing patterns. In a previous post I mentioned one problem we need to deal with, related to how we represent the feat.. (more)