Philipp Rönchen

PhD student in General Linguistics at Department of Linguistics and Philology; Guests, affiliates and others

E-mail:: Philipp.Ronchen@lingfil.uu.se
Visiting address:: Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H
Postal address:: Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA

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Short presentation

PhD student in historical linguistics. Room number 9-3033, Engelska parken.

Research

I'm interested in the mathematical and statistical modelling of language change and in language documentation.

Talks on conferences and workshops:

2024; with Tilo Wiklund: “Dollo” after all? Puzzling behaviour of models of vocabulary evolution can be explained by effects of ascertainment correction

2023; with Harald Hammarström: Explorations in grammatochronology

2023; with Oscar Billing and Tilo Wiklund: Using simulated data to evaluate models of Indo-European vocabulary evolution

2021; with Tilo Wiklund: Why we need more study of models, not data, in computational historical linguistics

Publications

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Articles in journal

First notes on Muno (Papua New Guinea)

Rönchen, Philipp

Part of NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia, p. 1-37, 2025
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Likelihood calculation in a multistate model of vocabulary evolution for linguistic dating

Rönchen, Philipp; Wiklund, Tilo; Hammarström, Harald

Part of Language Dynamics and Change, p. 1-41, 2024
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Revisiting Negation in Neural Machine Translation

Tang, Gongbo; Rönchen, Philipp; Sennrich, Rico; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 740-755, 2021
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On computational historical linguistics in the 21st century

Hammarström, Harald; Rönchen, Philipp; Elgh, Erik; Wiklund, Tilo

Part of Theoretical Linguistics, p. 233-245, 2019
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Comprehensive doctoral thesis

Evaluating models of vocabulary evolution for linguistic dating and subgrouping

Rönchen, Philipp

2025
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Manuscripts (preprints)

Using simulated data to evaluate models of Indo-European vocabulary evolution

Rönchen, Philipp; Billing, Oscar; Wiklund, Tilo
Either ‘Dollo’ or overﬁtting? Why ﬁnite-state Markov chains are unreliable models of vocabulary evolution

Rönchen, Philipp; Häuser, Luise; Wiklund, Tilo