Understanding transition probabilities

Articles in the same Issue

1. How plausible is the hypothesis that population size and dispersal are related to phoneme inventory size? Introducing and commenting on a debate
2. Social structure and phoneme inventories
3. Does phoneme inventory size correlate with population size?
4. Are small languages more or less complex than big ones?
5. Phonological diversity, word length, and population sizes across languages: The ASJP evidence
6. Phonemic diversity and the out-of-Africa theory
7. Out of Africa? The logic of phoneme inventories and founder effects
8. On phonemic diversity and the origin of language in Africa
9. A pilot study for an investigation into Atkinson's hypothesis
10. Athabaskan languages and serial founder effects
11. The many origins of diversity and complexity in phonology
12. Geographical distribution of phonological complexity
13. Mixed effect models for genetic and areal dependencies in linguistic typology
14. Linking spatial patterns of language variation to ancient demography and population migrations
15. Call for debate re word-order universals
16. The evidence for word order correlations
17. Stability of word order: Even simple questions need careful answers
18. Computational methods are invaluable for typology, but the models must match the questions
19. Statistical modeling of language universals
20. Understanding transition probabilities
21. Greenbergian universals, diachrony, and statistical analyses
22. Where's diachrony?
23. The interplay between Universal Grammar, universals, and lineage specificity
24. Non-arguments about non-universals
25. Complementing quantitative typology with behavioral approaches: Evidence for typological universals
26. Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families