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  1. Exploring the impact of inference method, character coding scheme, and cognacy criterion on phylolinguistic inference: The case of the Japonic language family

    Article • August 2026, Center for Open Science

    Thomas Pellard

  2. Japanese has effectively only two accent patterns: A quantitative and information-theoretic approach to lexical predictability

    Article • August 2026, Center for Open Science

    Thomas Pellard

  3. Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies

    Article • Evolutionary Human Sciences, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Thomas Pellard

  4. Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies

    Article • August 2024, Center for Open Science

    Thomas Pellard

  5. The implicative structure of Asama verb paradigms

    Article • Morphology, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Thomas Pellard

  6. A new local indicator of spatial autocorrelation identifies clusters of high rendaku frequency in Japanese place names

    Article • Journal of Linguistic Geography, February 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Thomas Pellard

  7. Phylogenies based on lexical innovations refute the Rung hypothesis

    Article • Diachronica, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Thomas Pellard, Mr Guillaume Jacques

  8. A (More) Comparative Approach to Some Japanese Etymologies

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Thomas Pellard

  9. Verb Morphology and Conjugation Classes in Dunan (Yonaguni)

    Article • January 2017, De Gruyter

    Thomas Pellard

  10. Why /r/ is not a special, empty consonant in Japanese

    Article • Journal of East Asian Linguistics, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Thomas Pellard

  11. The etymology of the name of Buddha in Japanese, Korean, and other Asian languages

    Article • Journal of the American Oriental Society, January 2014, American Oriental Society

    Thomas Pellard

  12. Review of Bentley (2008): A Linguistic History of the Forgotten Islands: A Reconstruction of the proto-language of the Southern Ryukyus

    Article • Diachronica, June 2010, John Benjamins

    Thomas Pellard

  13. Bjarke FRELLESVIG and John WHITMAN (2008). Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 229 p.

    Article • Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Thomas Pellard

  14. Proto-Japonic *e and *o in Eastern Old Japanese

    Article • Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, January 2008, Brill

    Thomas Pellard

  15. Koguryo, the Language of Japan's Continental Relatives: An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages with a Preliminary Description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese (review)

    Article • Korean Studies, January 2005, Project Muse

    Thomas Pellard

  16. 1. The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands

    Article • De Gruyter

    Thomas Pellard

  17. 18. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan)

    Article • De Gruyter

    Thomas Pellard