Claire L. Bowern, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Linguistics Yale University, New Haven, CT 
Area:
historical linguistics, Australian languages
Website:
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~clb3/

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2023 Passmore S, Barth W, Greenhill SJ, Quinn K, Sheard C, Argyriou P, Birchall J, Bowern C, Calladine J, Deb A, Diederen A, Metsäranta NP, Araujo LH, Schembri R, Hickey-Hall J, et al. Kinbank: A global database of kinship terminology. Plos One. 18: e0283218. PMID 37224178 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283218  0.371
2023 Skirgård H, Haynie HJ, Blasi DE, Hammarström H, Collins J, Latarche JJ, Lesage J, Weber T, Witzlack-Makarevich A, Passmore S, Chira A, Maurits L, Dinnage R, Dunn M, Reesink G, ... ... Bowern C, et al. Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss. Science Advances. 9: eadg6175. PMID 37075104 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg6175  0.729
2022 Bowern C. Drivers of language loss. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6: 132-133. PMID 34916622 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01621-x  0.446
2021 Sheard C, Bowern C, Dockum R, Jordan FM. Erratum: Pama-Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 3: e43. PMID 37588560 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2021.43  0.706
2021 Kik A, Adamec M, Aikhenvald AY, Bajzekova J, Baro N, Bowern C, Colwell RK, Drozd P, Duda P, Ibalim S, Jorge LR, Mogina J, Ruli B, Sam K, Sarvasy H, et al. Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world's most linguistically diverse nation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118. PMID 34039709 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2100096118  0.44
2020 Sheard C, Bowern C, Dockum R, Jordan FM. Pama-Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. PMID 35663513 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.31  0.75
2019 Pacheco Coelho MT, Pereira EB, Haynie HJ, Rangel TF, Kavanagh P, Kirby KR, Greenhill SJ, Bowern C, Gray RD, Colwell RK, Evans N, Gavin MC. Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 286: 20190242. PMID 30914010 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2019.0242  0.532
2019 Babinski S, Dockum R, Craft JH, Fergus A, Goldenberg D, Bowern C. A Robin Hood approach to forced alignment: English-trained algorithms and their use on Australian languages Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. 4: 3. DOI: 10.3765/PLSA.V4I1.4468  0.315
2019 Bowern C, Dockum R. 101 problems and solutions in historical linguistics: A workbook by Robert Blust (review) Oceanic Linguistics. 58: 426-430. DOI: 10.1353/Ol.2019.0015  0.707
2018 Bowern C. Unanswered problems in language evolution. Theoretical Biology Forum. 111: 79-82. PMID 31089672 DOI: 10.19272/201811402008  0.539
2018 Bouckaert RR, Bowern C, Atkinson QD. The origin and expansion of Pama-Nyungan languages across Australia. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PMID 29531347 DOI: 10.1038/S41559-018-0489-3  0.744
2018 Babinski S, Bowern C. Mergers in Bardi: contextual probability and predictors of sound change Linguistics Vanguard. 4. DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2017-0024  0.392
2018 Moravec JC, Atkinson Q, Bowern C, Greenhill SJ, Jordan FM, Ross RM, Gray R, Marsland S, Cox MP. Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 594-601. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.06.002  0.667
2017 Bowern C. Language vitality: Theorizing language loss, shift, and reclamation (Response to Mufwene) Language. 93: e243-e253. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2017.0068  0.577
2017 Gavin MC, Rangel TF, Bowern C, Colwell RK, Kirby KR, Botero CA, Dunn M, Dunn RR, McCarter J, Pacheco Coelho MT, Gray RD. Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26: 584-591. DOI: 10.1111/Geb.12563  0.57
2016 Bowern C. Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy, and Revitalization ed. by Mari C. Jones and Sarah Ogilvie, and: Endangered Languages and New Technologies ed. by Mari C. Jones Anthropological Linguistics. 58: 211-214. DOI: 10.1353/ANL.2016.0028  0.372
2015 Bowern C. Linguistics: evolution and language change. Current Biology : Cb. 25: R41-3. PMID 25562300 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.053  0.365
2015 Bowern C. Data “big” and “small” – Examples from the Australian lexical database Linguistics Vanguard. 1. DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2014-1009  0.328
2014 Haynie H, Bowern C, Lapalombara H. Sound symbolism in the languages of Australia. Plos One. 9: e92852. PMID 24752356 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092852  0.441
2014 Gasser E, Bowern C. Revisiting Phonotactic Generalizations in Australian Languages Proceedings of the Annual Meetings On Phonology. 1. DOI: 10.3765/AMP.V1I1.17  0.508
2014 Koch H, Mailhammer R, Blust R, Bowern C, Daniels D, Francois A, Greenhill S, Joseph B, Reid L, Ross M, Sidwell P. Research priorities in historical-comparative linguistics: A view from Asia, Australia and the Pacific Diachronica. 31: 267-278. DOI: 10.1075/Dia.31.2.04Koc  0.701
2014 Haynie H, Bowern C, Epps P, Hill J, McConvell P. Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia Ampersand. 1: 1-18. DOI: 10.1016/J.Amper.2014.10.001  0.565
2013 Bowern C. Relatedness as a Factor in Language Contact Journal of Language Contact. 6: 411-432. DOI: 10.1163/19552629-00602010  0.506
2012 Bowern C. The riddle of Tasmanian languages. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 279: 4590-5. PMID 23015621 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842  0.457
2012 Epps P, Bowern C, Hansen CA, Hill JH, Zentz J. On numeral complexity in hunter-gatherer languages Linguistic Typology. 16: 41-109. DOI: 10.1515/Lingty-2012-0002  0.745
2012 Bowern C, Atkinson Q. Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan Language. 88: 817-845. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2012.0081  0.651
2012 Bowern C, Zentz J. Diversity in the numeral systems of Australian languages Anthropological Linguistics. 54: 133-160. DOI: 10.1353/Anl.2012.0008  0.758
2011 Bowern C, Epps P, Gray R, Hill J, Hunley K, McConvell P, Zentz J. Does lateral transmission obscure inheritance in hunter-gatherer languages? Plos One. 6: e25195. PMID 21980394 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0025195  0.757
2011 Round E, Hunter J, Bowern C. Reappraising the Eff ects of Language Contact in the Torres Strait Journal of Language Contact. 4: 106-140. DOI: 10.1163/187740911X558798  0.575
2011 McConvell P, Bowern C. The Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages Linguistics and Language Compass. 5: 19-32. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00257.x  0.468
2010 Bowern C. Historical linguistics in Australia: trees, networks and their implications. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 365: 3845-54. PMID 21041209 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0013  0.493
2010 Bowern C. Two Missing Pieces in a Nyulnyulan Jigsaw Puzzle Lsa Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts. 1: 48. DOI: 10.3765/EXABS.V0I0.528  0.473
2010 Bowern C. Language classification: History and method (review) Language. 86: 706-709. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2010.0016  0.531
2010 Bowern C. Correlates of Language Change in Hunter-Gatherer and Other 'Small' Languages Linguistics and Language Compass. 4: 665-679. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00220.x  0.497
2007 Bowern C. A Grammar of Lavukaleve (review) Language. 83: 232-232. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2007.0004  0.308
2007 Bowern C. Endangered Languages and Linguistic Rights: on the Margins of Nations. Proceedings of the Eighth FEL Conference, Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain, 1–3 October, 2004 Language in Society. 36. DOI: 10.1017/S0047404507350136  0.561
2004 Bowern C. Turkish Grammar (review) Language. 80: 182-182. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2004.0015  0.315
2004 Bowern C. Ken Hale: A Life in Language (review) Language. 80: 179-180. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2004.0014  0.516
2002 Bowern C. Sign Language in Indo-Pakistan: A Description of a Signed Language (review) Language. 78: 807-808. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2003.0006  0.588
2000 Bowern C. Constructive case: Evidence from Australian languages By Rachel Nordlinger Language. 76: 213-214. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2000.0132  0.51
1999 Bowern C, Fisiak J. Middle English Miscellany: From Vocabulary to Linguistic Variation Language. 75: 642. DOI: 10.2307/417124  0.434
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2004 Bowern C. Grammatical Relations and Change (review) Language. 80: 172-172. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2004.0013  0.292
2018 Gavin MC, Kavanagh PH, Haynie HJ, Bowern C, Ember CR, Gray RD, Jordan FM, Kirby KR, Kushnick G, Low BS, Vilela B, Botero CA. The global geography of human subsistence. Royal Society Open Science. 5: 171897. PMID 30839689 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.171897  0.285
2004 Bowern C. Introductory Dictionary of Western Arrernte (review) Language. 80: 168-168. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2004.0012  0.281
2012 Hunley K, Bowern C, Healy M. Rejection of a serial founder effects model of genetic and linguistic coevolution. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 279: 2281-8. PMID 22298843 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2011.2296  0.28
2001 Bowern C. Coverbs and Complex Predicates in Wagiman (review) Language. 77: 189-190. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2001.0004  0.279
2017 Rossetto M, Ens EJ, Honings T, Wilson PD, Yap JS, Costello O, Round ER, Bowern C. From Songlines to genomes: Prehistoric assisted migration of a rain forest tree by Australian Aboriginal people. Plos One. 12: e0186663. PMID 29117184 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0186663  0.279
2002 Bowern C. Systems of Nominal Classification (review) Language. 78: 808-808. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2003.0007  0.277
2012 Bowern C. Nyikina paradigms and refunctionalization Journal of Historical Linguistics. 2: 7-24. DOI: 10.1075/JHL.2.1.03BOW  0.272
2013 Gavin MC, Botero CA, Bowern C, Colwell RK, Dunn M, Dunn RR, Gray RD, Kirby KR, McCarter J, Powell A, Rangel TF, Stepp JR, Trautwein M, Verdolin JL, Yanega G. Toward a mechanistic understanding of linguistic diversity Bioscience. 63: 524-535. DOI: 10.1525/Bio.2013.63.7.6  0.264
2014 Bowern C, Haynie H, Sheard C, Alpher B, Epps P, Hill J, McConvell P. Loan and inheritance patterns in hunter-gatherer ethnobiological systems Journal of Ethnobiology. 34: 195-227. DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-34.2.195  0.258
2002 Bowern C. The Tonology of Khoekhoe (Nama/Damara) (review) Language. 78: 201-202. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2002.0003  0.257
2016 Malaspinas AS, Westaway MC, Muller C, Sousa VC, Lao O, Alves I, Bergström A, Athanasiadis G, Cheng JY, Crawford JE, Heupink TH, Macholdt E, Peischl S, Rasmussen S, Schiffels S, ... ... Bowern C, et al. A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia. Nature. PMID 27654914 DOI: 10.1038/Nature18299  0.255
2016 Haynie HJ, Bowern C. Phylogenetic approach to the evolution of color term systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113: 13666-13671. PMID 27849594 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1613666113  0.23
2000 Bowern C, Ross M, Pawley A, Osmond M. The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society. Vol. 1: Material Culture Language. 76: 942. DOI: 10.2307/417230  0.222
1999 Bowern C, Mathiassen T. A Short Grammar of Latvian Language. 75: 643. DOI: 10.2307/417125  0.216
2020 Kavanagh PH, Haynie HJ, Kushnick G, Vilela B, Tuff T, Bowern C, Low BS, Ember CR, Kirby KR, Botero CA, Gavin MC. Drivers of global variation in land ownership Ecography. DOI: 10.1111/Ecog.05205  0.216
2016 Kirby KR, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, Jordan FM, Gomes-Ng S, Bibiko HJ, Blasi DE, Botero CA, Bowern C, Ember CR, Leehr D, Low BS, McCarter J, Divale W, Gavin MC. D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. Plos One. 11: e0158391. PMID 27391016 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0158391  0.194
2011 Bowern C. Out of Africa? The logic of phoneme inventories and founder effects Linguistic Typology. 15: 207-216. DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2011.015  0.165
2015 Zhou K, Bowern C. Quantifying uncertainty in the phylogenetics of Australian numeral systems. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 282. PMID 26378214 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1278  0.126
2012 Bowern C, McDonough J, Kelliher K. Bardi Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 42: 333-351. DOI: 10.1017/S0025100312000217  0.12
2010 Bowern C. The typological implications of Bardi complex predicates Linguistic Typology. 14: 39-70. DOI: 10.1515/LITY.2010.002  0.108
2008 Bowern C. The diachrony of complex predicates Diachronica. 25: 161-185. DOI: 10.1075/dia.25.2.03bow  0.086
2017 Bowern C, Haynie HJ. Reply to Nash: Color terms are lost, despite missing data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 28912350 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1714258114  0.075
2008 Bowern C. The reconstruction of Nyulnyulan complex predication Diachronica. 25: 186-212. DOI: 10.1075/dia.25.2.04bow  0.073
2006 Bowern C. Australian Complex Predicates Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 32: 17. DOI: 10.3765/BLS.V32I2.3489  0.057
2010 Dousset L, Hendery R, Bowern C, Koch H, McConvell P. Developing a database for Australian Indigenous kinship terminology: The AustKin project Australian Aboriginal Studies. 42-56.  0.055
2017 Bowern C. The Indo-European controversy and Bayesian phylogenetic methods Diachronica. 34: 421-436. DOI: 10.1075/DIA.34.3.04BOW  0.052
2010 Bowern C. Fieldwork in Contact Situations Handbook of Language Contact. 340-357. DOI: 10.1002/9781444318159.ch17  0.05
1999 Bowern C. The interaction of modality and negation: A typological study By Ferdinand de Haan Language. 75: 193-193. DOI: 10.1353/LAN.1999.0076  0.041
2004 Bowern C. The origins of tense-based case marking in Pitta-Pitta and Wangkajutjuru Australian Journal of Linguistics. 24: 163-183. DOI: 10.1080/0726860042000271816  0.023
2009 Bowern C. Reassessing karnic: A reply to Breen (2007) Australian Journal of Linguistics. 29: 337-348. DOI: 10.1080/07268600903232733  0.017
2010 Bowern C. Fieldwork and the IRB: A snapshot Language. 86: 897-905.  0.01
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