The course will familiarize the student with current questions in evolutionary linguistics and with the statistical methods used for solving these questions. The lectures will introduce the students to selected articles and discuss the linguistic questions they are focusing on and the data and analyses used to solve them. In the exercises the students will redo some of the analyses using the R programming environment. There will be a small independent statistical study as part of the course.
- Opettaja
Outi Vesakoski