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Challenges of sampling and how phylogenetic comparative methods help: With a case study of the Pama-Nyungan laminal contrast
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In: ISSN: 1430-0532 ; EISSN: 1613-415X ; Linguistic Typology ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03643365 ; Linguistic Typology, De Gruyter, In press, ⟨10.1515/lingty-2021-0025⟩ (2022)
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Re-evaluating phoneme frequencies: Supplementary materials S6–S7 ...
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Re-evaluating phoneme frequencies ...
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Causal processes can give rise to distinctive distributions in the linguistic variables that they affect. Consequently, a secure understanding of a variable's distribution can hold a key to understanding the forces that have causally shaped it. A storied distribution in linguistics has been Zipf's law, a kind of power law. In the wake of a major debate in the sciences around power-law hypotheses and the unreliability of earlier methods of evaluating them, here we re-evaluate the distributions claimed to characterize phoneme frequencies. We infer the fit of power laws and three alternative distributions to 166 Australian languages, using a maximum likelihood framework. We find evidence supporting earlier results, but also nuancing them and increasing our understanding of them. Most notably, phonemic inventories appear to have a Zipfian-like frequency structure among their most-frequent members (though perhaps also a lognormal structure) but a geometric (or exponential) structure among the least-frequent. We ... : 29pp (3 figures, 3 tables). This article has been provisionally accepted for publication (Frontiers in Psychology, Language Sciences). Supplementary information, data and code available at http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3886212 ...
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Applications stat.AP; Computation and Language cs.CL; FOS Computer and information sciences; FOS Physical sciences; J.5; Physics and Society physics.soc-ph
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2006.05206
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05206
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Automated parsing of interlinear glossed text from page images of grammatical descriptions
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High-definition phonotactic typology in Sahul: Choosing the data-rich approach ...
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High-definition phonotactic typology in Sahul: Choosing the data-rich approach ...
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High-definition phonotactic data contain phylogenetic signal ...
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