How Many Is Enough?-Statistical Principles for Lexicostatistics.
How Many Is Enough?-Statistical Principles for Lexicostatistics.
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多少才足够？-词汇统计学的统计原理。
DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01916
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Gong T
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文献类型：
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作者：
Zhang M;Gong T
Lexicostatistics has been applied in linguistics to inform phylogenetic relations among languages. There are two important yet not well-studied parameters in this approach: the conventional size of vocabulary list to collect potentially true cognates and the minimum matching instances required to confirm a recurrent sound correspondence. Here, we derive two statistical principles from stochastic theorems to quantify these parameters. These principles validate the practice of using the Swadesh 100- and 200-word lists to indicate degree of relatedness between languages, and enable a frequency-based, dynamic threshold to detect recurrent sound correspondences. Using statistical tests, we further evaluate the generality of the Swadesh 100-word list compared to the Swadesh 200-word list and other 100-word lists sampled randomly from the Swadesh 200-word list. All these provide mathematical support for applying lexicostatistics in historical and comparative linguistics.
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影响因子：
9.2
作者：
Hruschka, Daniel J.;Branford, Simon;Smith, Eric D.;Wilkins, Jon;Meade, Andrew;Pagel, Mark;Bhattacharya, Tanmoy
通讯作者：
Bhattacharya, Tanmoy
影响因子：
2.1
作者：
BENDER, ML
通讯作者：
BENDER, ML
影响因子：
2.2
作者：
BERGSLAND, K;VOGT, H
通讯作者：
VOGT, H
影响因子：
0.7
作者：
Heggarty, Paul
通讯作者：
Heggarty, Paul
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1204678110
发表时间：
2013-03-12
影响因子：
11.1
作者：
Bouchard-Cote, Alexandre;Hall, David;Klein, Dan
通讯作者：
Klein, Dan