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15 lines representing a bull
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Traditional statistics Assumes data is independent Comparative methods
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English Fish Danish Fisk Dutch Visch Fish Ryba Czech Ryba Russian Ryba Bulgarian Riba 23 other languages 34other languages
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13517 Average 17 1 Who, Three 35 Person, Dirty
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Englishheresea(A)(A)waterwhen Germanhiersee, meer(A,B)(A,B)wasserwenn Frenchicimer(B)(B)eauquand Italianqui, quamare(B)(B)acquaquando Greekedothalasa(C)(C)neropote Hittitekaaruna-(D)watarkuwapi Languages Meanings sea (A)meer (B)thalasa (C)aruna- (D) English1000 German1100 French0100 Italian0100 Greek0010 Hittite0001
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Q 01 0 Non cognate 1 Cognate Q 10 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 Time 1000 years
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Results = Data + Method
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Most probable Random tree -58204 Log units 4.1 x 10 14107 Infinite number of poor trees
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Out group Greek Indo-Iranian Slavic Germanic Celtic Romance
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Name, 3 cognate classes Class A, Gypsy (Alav), Persian (Esm) Class B, Latvian (Vards), Lithuanian (Vardas) Class C, All the rest, Hindi (Nam), Greek (Onoma), Italian (Nome) Class A Class BClass C B A A B C A A C B C C B B A, C B, ect The estimated instantiations transition rate To many parameters, not enough data
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2 cognate classes Slow rateFast rate Class 1 Class 2
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Red Salt Five
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Mean = 3.05 1.82 Median = 2.74 Min. = 0.09 Max = 9.27 100 fold difference Mean rates for the 200 words Slow two, who, one, night, to die Fast dirty, to turn, to stab,
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Word Half life 50% chance of the word being replaced by a non-cognate form Years Mean5260 Median2530 Min750 Max76530 Based on IE being 8000 years
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I-E tree showing variation in rates of lexical replacement, per 10k years One 0.43Ear 0.88Sand 4.5 ROMANCE GERMANIC GREEK GERMANIC SLAVIC INDO- IRANIAN
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Spoken word frequency British National Corpus N = 4840 words mean = 194 geometric mean = 35.94 median = 25
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Distribution of frequency of word use (20-100 million words) Most words used < 100 times per million
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r=0.87 r=0.88 r=0.87 Frequent of use is very stable thru out IE
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Frequency vs rate of lexical evolution r=-0.37 r=-0.35 r=-0.41 r=-0.32
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Parts of speech conjunctions ---- prepositions ---- adjectives ---- verbs ---- nouns ---- special adverbs---- pronouns ---- numbers ---- R 2 =0.50 R 2 =0.48 Numbers, pronouns, special adverbs Stronger selection?
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Some similarities between linguistic and genetic systems
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