Session 1: 1st May

Blust, Robert. 2005. Must sound change be linguistically motivated? Diachronica. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.22.2.02blu  

Session 2: 8th May 

Blust, Robert. 2025. *b > -k-: A Berawan sound change for the ages. In Kuznetsova, Natalia, Anderson, Cormac & Easterday, Shelece (eds.). Rarities in phonetics and phonology: Structural, typological, evolutionary, and social dimensions. (Topics in Phonological Diversity 5). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14712629 https://zenodo.org/records/15148166 

Session 3: 15th May

Greenhill, Simon J., Heggarty, Paul, & Gray, Russell D. (2020). Bayesian Phylolinguistics. In Janda, Richard D.,  Joseph, Brian D., & Vance, Barbara S. (eds.). (2020). Wiley Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118732168.ch11 also available as a pre-print here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345439590_Bayesian_Phylolinguistics

Session 4: 22nd May

Nichols, Johanna & Tandy Warnow. 2008. Tutorial on computational linguistic phylogeny. Language and Linguistics Compass 2. 760–820. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00082.x 

Session 5: 29th May

Greenhill, S. J., & Gray, R. D. (2009). Austronesian language phylogenies: Myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods. Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust, 375-397. 

Session 6: 5th June

Lassiter & Truswell. Failed changes and the Superset Problem: The importance of learning in models of syntactic change. Manuscript under review. https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009556 

Session 7: 12th June

Verkerk, A., Shcherbakova, O., Haynie, H.J. et al. 2025. Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses. Nat Hum Behav. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02325-z