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Peter Ranacher, Nico Neureiter, Rik van Gijn, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Anastasia Escher, Robert Weibel, Pieter Muysken, Balthasar Bickel. 2021. Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact. J. R. Soc. Interface 182. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1031

Contact tracing of a different kind. Our latest paper in Royal Society INTERFACE introduces a novel algorithm for Bayesian clustering in the presence of confounding effects, and shows how it can be used to trace areas of possible spatial contact between different languages.