Søren Wichmann

Kiel University — Germany

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Language and cultural evolution(74), Linguistic Variation and Morphology(70), Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies(36), Natural Language Processing Techniques(30), Phonetics and Phonology Research(24)

Publications231 total

WITHDRAWN: Impact of ecology, subsistence, and climate on language spread rates
Quaternary Environments and Humans·2025Open Access
CLDF dataset derived from Wichmann et al.'s "ASJP Database" v21 from 2025
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Linguistic phylogeography
Oxford University Press eBooks·2025
Fingerprinting conflict: A comparative model with applications to archaeological and historical data
PLoS ONE·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
14 A typological overview of Mixe-Zoquean languages
2024
Temperature shapes language sonority: Revalidation from a large dataset
PNAS Nexus·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
The halfway similarity avoidance rule replicated using phonetic data from European language varieties
Language Dynamics and Change·2023· 1 cited
Languages in China link climate, voice quality, and tone in a causal chain
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
Tone and word length across languages
Frontiers in Psychology·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Phonetic differences between nouns and verbs in their typical syntactic positions in a tonal language: Evidence from disyllabic noun–verb ambiguous words in Standard Mandarin Chinese
Journal of Phonetics·2023· 1 cited
Cross-linguistic conditions on word length
PLoS ONE·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Cross-linguistic conditions on word length
2022Open Access
A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2022· 91 citedOpen Access
Appendix to Wichmann et al. (2010), Homelands of the World's language families
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
Appendix to Wichmann et al. (2010), Homelands of the World's language families
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
CLDF dataset derived from Wichmann et al.'s "ASJP Database" v20 from 2022
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022· 4 citedOpen Access
Data for the paper "Conditions on word length"
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
Pipeline for a Data-driven Network of Linguistic Terms
Linköping electronic conference proceedings·2021Open Access
An algorithm to identify periods of establishment and obsolescence of linguistic items in a diachronic corpus
Corpora·2021· 1 cited
CLDF dataset derived from Wichmann's "Lexicostatistical Dataset of Mixe-Zoquean" from 2006
2021Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Eric W. Holman(15), Cecil H. Brown(13), Viveka Velupillai(6), Taraka Rama(6), Dik Bakker(5), André Müller(4), Harald Hammarström(3), Christian Schulze(3), Dietrich Stauffer(3), Charles R. Clément(3), Patience Epps(3), Eike Luedeling(3), Damián E. Blasí(2), Mark Donohue(2), Pamela Brown(2), Oleg Belyaev(2), Matthias Urban(2), Robert Mailhammer(2), Johann‐Mattis List(2), Dmitry Egorov(2)