APPROXIMATELY INDEPENDENT FEATURES OF LANGUAGES

DOI10.1142/S0129183108012029zbMATH Open1172.68634arXiv0709.4536OpenAlexW1988783047MaRDI QIDQ3602289FDOQ3602289

Authors: Eric W. Holman 

Publication date: 12 February 2009

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics C (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: To facilitate the testing of models for the evolution of languages, the present note offers a set of linguistic features that are approximately independent of each other. To find these features, the adjusted Rand index R' is used to estimate the degree of pairwise relationship among 130 linguistic features in a large published database. Many of the R' values prove to be near 0, as predicted for independent features, and a subset of 47 features is found with an average R' of -0.0001. These 47 features are recommended for use in statistical tests that require independent units of analysis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4536

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zbMATH Keywords

hypothesis testsstatistical independenceWALSlinguistic typology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Natural language processing (68T50) Linguistics (91F20)

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