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Using networks to infer sound correspondence patterns across multiple languages

Using networks to infer sound correspondence patterns across multiple languages

Talk, held at the workshop "Distinguishability in Phylogenetic Networks" (Lorentz Center, Leiden, 2018-08-13-17).

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August 16, 2018
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  1. Using networks to infer sound correspondence patterns across multiple languages

    Johann-Mattis List Research Group “Computer-Assisted Language Comparison” Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Jena, Germany 2018-08-16 very long title P(A|B)=P(B|A)... 1 / 45
  2. "All languages change, as long as they exist." (August Schleicher

    1863) walkman Indo-European Germanic Old English English p f f f ə a æ ɑː t d d ð eː eː e ə r r r r Germanic German English iPod Comparative Linguistics 2 / 45
  3. iPod Indo-European Germanic Old English English p f f f

    ə a æ ɑː t d d ð eː eː e ə r r r r Germanic German English walkman "All languages change, as long as they exist." (August Schleicher 1863) Comparative Linguistics 2 / 45
  4. walkman Indo-European Germanic Old English English p f f f

    ə a æ ɑː t d d ð eː eː e ə r r r r Germanic German English iPod "All languages change, as long as they exist." (August Schleicher 1863) Comparative Linguistics 2 / 45
  5. walkman Indo-European Germanic Old English English p f f f

    ə a æ ɑː t d d ð eː eː e ə r r r r Germanic German English iPod "All languages change, as long as they exist." (August Schleicher 1863) Comparative Linguistics 2 / 45
  6. iPod Indo-European Germanic Old English English p f f f

    ə a æ ɑː t d d ð eː eː e ə r r r r walkman L₁ L₁ L₁ L₁ L₁ "All languages change, as long as they exist." (August Schleicher 1863) Comparative Linguistics 2 / 45
  7. iPod Indo-European Germanic Old English English p f f f

    ə a æ ɑː t d d ð eː eː e ə r r r r walkman L₁ L₁ L₁ L₁ L₁ "All languages change, as long as they exist." (August Schleicher 1863) Comparative Linguistics 2 / 45
  8. iPod Indo-European Germanic Old English English p f f f

    ə a æ ɑː t d d ð eː eː e ə r r r r walkman L₁ L₁ L₁ L₁ L₁ "All languages change, as long as they exist." (August Schleicher 1863) Comparative Linguistics 2 / 45
  9. iPod Indo-European Germanic Old English English p f f f

    ə a æ ɑː t d d ð eː eː e ə r r r r walkman L₁ L₁ L₁ "All languages change, as long as they exist." (August Schleicher 1863) Comparative Linguistics 2 / 45
  10. iPod Indo-European Germanic Old English English p f f f

    ə a æ ɑː t d d ð eː eː e ə r r r r walkman L₂ L₁ L₃ "All languages change, as long as they exist." (August Schleicher 1863) Comparative Linguistics 2 / 45
  11. Comparative Linguistics Computational Linguistics Classical vs. Computational Language Comparison LC

    CA COMPA- RATIVE METHOD lacks efficiency lacks consistency lacks efficiency lacks accuracy lacks flexibility high efficiency high consistency high flexibility high accuracy COMPUTA- TIONAL HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 6 / 45
  12. Comparative Linguistics Computational Linguistics Classical vs. Computational Language Comparison LC

    CA COMPA- RATIVE METHOD lacks efficiency lacks consistency lacks efficiency lacks accuracy lacks flexibility high efficiency high consistency high flexibility high accuracy COMPUTA- TIONAL HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 6 / 45
  13. Comparative Linguistics Computational Linguistics Classical vs. Computational Language Comparison LC

    CA lacks efficiency lacks consistency lacks efficiency lacks accuracy lacks flexibility high efficiency high consistency high flexibility high accuracy COMPA- RATIVE METHOD accuracy flexibility consistency efficiency COMPUTA- TIONAL HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 6 / 45
  14. Comparative Linguistics CALC Computer-Assisted Language Comparison LC CA LC CA

    lacks efficiency lacks consistency lacks efficiency lacks accuracy lacks flexibility high efficiency high consistency high flexibility high accuracy COMPA- RATIVE METHOD accuracy flexibility consistency efficiency COMPUTA- TIONAL HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 7 / 45
  15. Historical Language Comparison Sequences in Biology and Linguistics Alphabets in

    Biology and Linguistics • universal • language-specific 9 / 45
  16. Historical Language Comparison Sequences in Biology and Linguistics Alphabets in

    Biology and Linguistics • universal • language-specific • limited • widely varying 9 / 45
  17. Historical Language Comparison Sequences in Biology and Linguistics Alphabets in

    Biology and Linguistics • universal • language-specific • limited • widely varying • constant • mutable 9 / 45
  18. Historical Language Comparison Sound Change Sound Change Nase Nass Muse

    muss singen m → b n → d ng → g ss → th s → dh 10 / 45
  19. Historical Language Comparison Sound Change Sound Change Nase Nass Muse

    muss singen m → b n → d ng → g ss → th s → dh 10 / 45
  20. Historical Language Comparison Sound Change Sound Change Nase Nass Muse

    muss singen m → b n → d ng → g ss → th s → dh 10 / 45
  21. Historical Language Comparison Sound Change Sound Change bass buzic dose

    doizy sig math mudhic nothe noidhy thing 10 / 45
  22. Historical Language Comparison Sound Change Sound Change *mass *muzic *nose

    *noizy *sing bass buzic dose doizy sig math mudhic nothe noidhy thing 10 / 45
  23. Historical Language Comparison Sound Correspondences Inferring Correspondences Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ 11 / 45
  24. Historical Language Comparison Sound Correspondences Inferring Correspondences Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ 11 / 45
  25. Historical Language Comparison Sound Correspondences Inferring Correspondences Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ 11 / 45
  26. Historical Language Comparison Sound Correspondences Inferring Correspondences Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ 11 / 45
  27. Historical Language Comparison Sound Correspondences Inferring Correspondences Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ 11 / 45
  28. Historical Language Comparison Sound Correspondences Inferring Correspondences Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ 11 / 45
  29. Historical Language Comparison Sound Correspondences Inferring Correspondences Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ 11 / 45
  30. Historical Language Comparison Sound Correspondences Inferring Correspondences Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ 11 / 45
  31. Historical Language Comparison Homolog Detection Inferring Homologs Cognate List Alignment

    Correspondences Bola six kʰ j a u ʔ ⁵⁵ Bola Maru Freq. a(a̰) a(a̰) 3 x u u 3 x ʔ k 3 x j j 2 x k(ʰ) k(ʰ) 2 x ⁵⁵ ⁵⁵ 2 x ³¹ ³¹ 1 x Maru six kʰ j a u k ⁵⁵ Bola lip k a̰ u ʔ ⁵⁵ Maru lip k a̰ u k ⁵⁵ Bola man j a u ʔ ³¹ Maru man j a u k ³¹ 12 / 45
  32. Historical Language Comparison Correspondence Patterns Inferring Patterns Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ tʰ tsʰ t tʰ sʰ 13 / 45
  33. Historical Language Comparison Correspondence Patterns Inferring Patterns Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ tʰ tsʰ t tʰ sʰ "salt" Bola tʰ a ³⁵ Maru tsʰ ɔ ³⁵ Rangoon sʰ ɑ ⁵⁵ 13 / 45
  34. Historical Language Comparison Correspondence Patterns Inferring Patterns Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ t ts t tʰ tθ 13 / 45
  35. Historical Language Comparison Correspondence Patterns Inferring Patterns Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ t ts t tʰ tθ "tooth" Bola t u i ⁵⁵ Maru ts ɔ i ³¹ Rangoon tθ w a ⁵⁵ 13 / 45
  36. Historical Language Comparison Correspondence Patterns Inferring Patterns Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ tʰ tʰ t tʰ tʰ 13 / 45
  37. Historical Language Comparison Correspondence Patterns Inferring Patterns Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ tʰ tʰ t tʰ tʰ "sharp" Bola tʰ a ʔ ⁵⁵ Maru tʰ ɔ ʔ ⁵⁵ Rangoon tʰ ɛ ʔ ⁴ 13 / 45
  38. Historical Language Comparison Correspondence Patterns Inferring Patterns Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ t t t tʰ t 13 / 45
  39. Historical Language Comparison Correspondence Patterns Inferring Patterns Ø Sound Bola

    Maru Rangoon d Ø Ø d t t t t tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tθ Ø Ø tθ ts ts ts Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ Ø tʃ tʃ tʃ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø s s s s sʰ Ø Ø sʰ ɕ Ø Ø ɕ ʃ ʃ ʃ t t t tʰ t "wing" Bola t a u ŋ ⁵⁵ Maru t a u ŋ ³¹ Rangoon t ɑ u ∼ ²² 13 / 45
  40. Inferring Correspondence Patterns From Sound Correspondences to Correspondence Patterns Sound

    Correspondences Gloss Proto-Germanic German English Dutch ‘dead’ *daudaz daudaz tot toːt dead dɛd doot doːt ‘deed’ *dēdiz deːdiz Tat taːt deed diːd daad daːt ‘thick’ *þekuz θekuz dick dɪk thick θɪk dik dɪk ‘thorn’ *þurnuz θurnuz Dorn dɔrn thorn θɔːn doorn doːrn ‘tongue’ *tungōn tuŋgoːn Zunge tsʊŋə tongue tʌŋ tong tɔŋ ‘tooth’ *tanþs tanθs Zahn tsaːn tooth tuːθ tand tɑnt 15 / 45
  41. Inferring Correspondence Patterns From Sound Correspondences to Correspondence Patterns Sound

    Correspondence Patterns PIE Hittite Sanskrit Avestan Greek Latin Gothic Old Church Slavonic Lithuanian Old Irish Armenian Tocharian *p p p p f p p f b p p Ø h w Ø p *b b p b bβ b b p b b b p p *bʰ b p bʱ/bh bβ pʰ/ph f b b b b b b p *t t t t θ t t θ/þ d t t t tʼ j/y t tʃ/c *d d t d d ð d d t d d d t ts ʃ/ś *dʰ d t dʰ/dh h d ð tʰ/th f d b d d d d t t tʃ/c ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... *kʷ kʷ/ku k c k c k p t kʷ/qu hʷ/hw g k tʃ/č k c kʼ tʃʼ/čʼ k ʃʲ/ś *gʷ kʷ/u g j g j g b d gʷ/gu u q g ʒ/ž z g b k k ś *gʷʰ kʷ/ku gʷ/gu gʱ/gh h g j pʰ/ph tʰ/th kʰ/kh f gʷ/gu u g b g ʒ/ž z g g g dʒ/ǰ k ʃʲ/ś Clackson (2007: 37) 16 / 45
  42. Inferring Correspondence Patterns From Sound Correspondences to Correspondence Patterns Sound

    Correspondence Patterns and Alignments d au d ( a z ) t oː t ( - - ) d ɛ d ( - - ) d oː t ( - - ) d eː d ( i z ) t aː t ( - - ) d iː d ( - - ) d a: t ( - - ) θ e k ( u z ) d ɪ k ( - - ) θ ɪ k ( - - ) d ɪ k ( - - ) θ u r n ( u z ) d ɔ r n ( - - ) θ ɔː - n ( - - ) d oː r n ( - - ) t u ŋ ( g oː ) ts ʊ ŋ ( - ə ) t ʌ ŋ ( - - ) t ɔ ŋ ( - - ) t a n θ ( s ) ts aː n - ( - ) t uː - θ ( - ) t ɑ n t ( - ) Proto-Germanic German English Dutch Proto-Germanic German English Dutch 'dead' 'thick' 'tongue' 'deed' 'thorn' 'tooth' 17 / 45
  43. Inferring Correspondence Patterns From Sound Correspondences to Correspondence Patterns Sound

    Correspondence Patterns and Alignments A B C D E F Sanskrit y u g a m dh u h i (tar) s n u ṣ (ā) - r u dh (iras) Greek z u g o n th u g a (ter-) - n u - (os) e r u th (rós) Latin i u g u m Ø Ø Ø Ø (Ø) - n u r (us) - r u b (er) Gothic j u k - - d au h - (tar) Ø Ø Ø Ø (Ø) Ø Ø Ø Ø (Ø) Gloss 'yoke' 'daughter' 'daughter-in-law' 'red' Adapted from Anttila (1972) 18 / 45
  44. Inferring Correspondence Patterns From Sound Correspondences to Correspondence Patterns Summary

    on Sound Correspondence Patterns correspondence patterns in linguistics are a way to encode mappings across several different alphabets 19 / 45
  45. Inferring Correspondence Patterns From Sound Correspondences to Correspondence Patterns Summary

    on Sound Correspondence Patterns correspondence patterns in linguistics are a way to encode mappings across several different alphabets they are usually inferred manually, by inspecting “correspondence sets” (Clackson 2007: 29f) of words (i.e., cognate sets with recurring sounds) 19 / 45
  46. Inferring Correspondence Patterns From Sound Correspondences to Correspondence Patterns Summary

    on Sound Correspondence Patterns correspondence patterns in linguistics are a way to encode mappings across several different alphabets they are usually inferred manually, by inspecting “correspondence sets” (Clackson 2007: 29f) of words (i.e., cognate sets with recurring sounds) the main problem of correspondence pattern identification is the handling of missing data, since not all cognate sets will necessarily contain reflexes from each of the languages under investigation 19 / 45
  47. Inferring Correspondence Patterns From Sound Correspondences to Correspondence Patterns Summary

    on Sound Correspondence Patterns θ u r n ( u z ) d ɔ r n ( - - ) θ ɔː - n ( - - ) d oː r n ( - - ) 'thorn' alignment site sound correspondence pattern θ e k ( u z ) d ɪ k ( - - ) θ ɪ k ( - - ) d ɪ k ( - - ) 'thick' Proto-Germanic German English Dutch θ d θ d θ u r p ( a ) Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø d ɔ r f ( - ) d ɔ r p ( - ) 'thorp' 20 / 45
  48. Inferring Correspondence Patterns Preliminaries on Correspondence Pattern Recognition Compatibility of

    Alignment Sites A E A F E F A C C E C F Sanskrit u <=> u ------ u <=> u ------ u <=> u ------ u <=> u ------ u <=> u ------ u <=> u Greek u <=> u u <=> u u <=> u u <=> u u <=> u u <=> u Latin u <=> u u <=> u u <=> u u ? Ø Ø ? u Ø ? u Gothic u ? Ø u ? Ø Ø ? Ø u >=< au au ? Ø au ? Ø Matches 3 3 3 2 2 2 21 / 45
  49. Inferring Correspondence Patterns Preliminaries on Correspondence Pattern Recognition Compatibility of

    Alignment Sites Two alignment sites are assumed to be compatible, if they (a) share at least one sound, (b) do not have any conflicting sounds. 22 / 45
  50. Inferring Correspondence Patterns Preliminaries on Correspondence Pattern Recognition Compabitility of

    Alignment Sites Cognate Set L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8 “hand-1” p p p Ø f f Ø p “foot-1” p p p p f f p p ⊠ compatible □ incompatible 23 / 45
  51. Inferring Correspondence Patterns Preliminaries on Correspondence Pattern Recognition Compabitility of

    Alignment Sites Cognate Set L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8 “hand-1” p p p Ø f f Ø p “foot-1” p p p p f f p p ⊠ compatible □ incompatible Cognate Set L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8 “hand-1” p p p Ø f f Ø p “leg-1” p p f pf f f p p □ compatible ⊠ incompatible 23 / 45
  52. Inferring Correspondence Patterns Preliminaries on Correspondence Pattern Recognition Alignment Site

    Networks Constructing an alignment site network from a set of alignments: all sites represent a node in the network edges are drawn between compatible sites edges can (in principle) also be weighted by the number of matching sounds (but disregarded in our algorithm so far) 24 / 45
  53. Inferring Correspondence Patterns Preliminaries on Correspondence Pattern Recognition Alignment Site

    Networks Sanskrit Greek Latin Gothic E u u u Ø Sanskrit Greek Latin Gothic F u u u Ø A u u u Sanskrit Greek Latin Gothic u Sanskrit Greek Latin Gothic C u u Ø au 25 / 45
  54. Inferring Correspondence Patterns Preliminaries on Correspondence Pattern Recognition Correspondence Pattern

    Inference as Clique Cover Problem The clique cover problem (also called clique partitioning problem, see Bhasker 1991) is the inverse of the famous graph coloring problem and has been shown to be NP-hard. 26 / 45
  55. Inferring Correspondence Patterns Preliminaries on Correspondence Pattern Recognition Correspondence Pattern

    Inference as Clique Cover Problem The clique cover problem (also called clique partitioning problem, see Bhasker 1991) is the inverse of the famous graph coloring problem and has been shown to be NP-hard. The goal of the problem is to split a graph into the smallest number of cliques in which each node is represented by exactly one clique. 26 / 45
  56. Inferring Correspondence Patterns Preliminaries on Correspondence Pattern Recognition Correspondence Pattern

    Inference as Clique Cover Problem The clique cover problem (also called clique partitioning problem, see Bhasker 1991) is the inverse of the famous graph coloring problem and has been shown to be NP-hard. The goal of the problem is to split a graph into the smallest number of cliques in which each node is represented by exactly one clique. We assume (but we cannot formally prove it) that the clique cover of our graph of compatible correspondence sets will come close to the best set of sound correspondence patterns in our data. 26 / 45
  57. Inferring Correspondence Patterns Preliminaries on Correspondence Pattern Recognition Correspondence Pattern

    Inference as Clique Cover Problem The clique cover problem (also called clique partitioning problem, see Bhasker 1991) is the inverse of the famous graph coloring problem and has been shown to be NP-hard. The goal of the problem is to split a graph into the smallest number of cliques in which each node is represented by exactly one clique. We assume (but we cannot formally prove it) that the clique cover of our graph of compatible correspondence sets will come close to the best set of sound correspondence patterns in our data. Partitioning our alignment site network into cliques does not solve the problem of linguistic reconstruction, but it can be seen as its fundamental prerequisite. 26 / 45
  58. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Description of the Method

    General Workflow word list A B cognates A B alignments site network 1 2 clique coverage 1 2 fuzzy sites (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 27 / 45
  59. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Description of the Method

    Implementation, Input, Output Full implementation is provided as plugin for LingPy (http://lingpy.org). An approximate version is shipped with the EDICTOR (http://edictor.digling.org). Input format follows the format employed by LingPy with some additional required columns which need to be submitted. Output in form of annotated word lists with assigned patterns for each word form, which can be read in and inspected with help of the EDICTOR, or in form of “normal” text files. 29 / 45
  60. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Description of the Method

    Implementation, Input, Output ID DOCULECT CONCEPT FORM TOKENS STRUCTURE COGID ALIGNMENT 1 German tongue Zunge ts ʊ ŋ ə c v c 1 ts ʊ ŋ ( ə ) 2 English tongue tongue t ʌ ŋ c v c 1 t ʌ ŋ ( - ) 3 Dutch tongue tong t ɔ ŋ c v c 1 t ɔ ŋ ( - ) 4 German tooth Zahn ts aː n c v c 2 ts aː n - 5 English tooth tooth t uː θ c v c 2 t uː - θ 6 Dutch tooth tand t ɑ n t c v c 2 t ɑ n t 7 German thick dick d ɪ k c v c 3 d ɪ k ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 30 / 45
  61. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Description of the Method

    Correspondence Pattern Recognition A three-step algorithm: (A) sort the alignment sites with a customized variant of the Quicksort algorithm (Hoare 1962) which groups compatible alignment sites closely together (sole algorithm used by EDICTOR due to restrictions of JavaScript on memory) (B) inverse version of Welsh-Powell algorithm (Welsh and Powell 1967) for graph coloring (a) sort all partitions according to size and alignment site density (b) pick first partition and compare it against all other partitions, merge with compatible partitions, put incompatible partitions into a queue (c) finish if no more partitions are in the queue (C) compare all alignment sites again with the inferred correspondence patterns and assign each alignment site to all patterns with which it is compatible to yield a fuzzy clustering 31 / 45
  62. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Description of the Method

    Correspondence Pattern Recognition L₁ L₂ L₃ L₄ S₁ k Ø Ø k S₂ k g Ø k S₃ Ø g g k L₁ L₂ L₃ L₄ S₁ 1 0 0 1 S₂ 1 1 0 1 S₃ 0 1 1 1 2 8 / (4 · 3) = 0.66 3 3 } calculating alignment site density 32 / 45
  63. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Testing Test and Training

    Data Dataset Source Languages Concepts Cognates Density Austronesian Greenhill et al. (2008) 20 210 2864 0.34 Bai Wang (2006) 9 110 285 0.73 Chinese Hóu (2004) 15 140 1189 0.60 IndoEuropean Dunn (2012) 20 207 1777 0.60 Japanese Hattori (1973) 10 200 460 0.70 ObUgrian Zhivlov (2011) 21 110 242 0.88 Bahnaric Sidwell (2015) 24 200 1055 0.76 Chinese Běijīng Dàxué (1964) 18 180 1231 0.68 Huon McElhanon (1967) 14 139 855 0.48 Romance Saenko (2015) 43 110 465 0.90 Tujia Starostin (2013) 5 109 179 0.63 Uralic Syrjänen et al. (2013) 7 173 870 0.39 test and training data (List et al. 2017) 33 / 45
  64. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Testing Test and Training

    Data D = 1 − 1 m m ∑ i=1 1 ni ni ∑ j=1 1 cognates(wij) (1) calculating the cognate density for a given wordlist 34 / 45
  65. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Testing General Characteristics All

    Patterns Consonants Vowels Dataset St. Pt. Sg. Fz. St. Pt. Sg. Fz. St. Pt. Sg. Fz. Bahnaric 2659 865 385 4.59 1651 480 222 4.53 1008 382 167 4.52 Chinese 3205 584 191 5.78 1118 207 79 3.81 1308 298 108 7.28 Huon 1572 271 104 4.07 873 154 58 2.98 699 115 40 5.42 Romance 1656 874 587 3.67 940 496 345 3.51 716 379 250 3.85 Tujia 952 272 130 2.66 323 118 62 1.71 347 84 41 2.71 Uralic 1346 326 131 3.35 763 180 74 2.75 583 141 45 4.16 St: Alignment Sites, Pt: Correspondence Patterns, Sg: Singleton Patterns, Fz: Fuzziness of alignment sites 35 / 45
  66. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Testing Specific Characteristics seeding

    of artificial borrowings or wrong cognates as a method for testing following Dessimoz et al. (2008), for a biological framework, randomly select pairs of languages and have them interchange words building on Dessimoz et al. (2008), create neologisms with LingPy’s built-in word generator (based on Markov Chains), to replace existing words in a given cognate set with a new (possible) word from the same language investigate the pattern regularity (PR) of the cognate sets in the data before and after the operations by (a) setting a user-defined threshold for the regularity of an alignment site derived from the density of its pattern (smoothing of singletons: they are always irregular) (b) accepting a cognate set as regular if half of its alignment sites are regular (c) splitting irregular cognate sets up into independent cognate sets 36 / 45
  67. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Testing Specific Characteristics: Fake

    Borrowings Unmodified Modified Diff. Dataset Orig. D. PR D. Orig. D. PR D. Lg. Ev. Bahnaric 0.76 0.51 0.76 0.45 0.06 4 400 Chinese 0.68 0.55 0.68 0.50 0.05 3 270 Huon 0.48 0.19 0.48 0.22 -0.03 2 139 Romance 0.90 0.38 0.90 0.24 0.14 8 440 Tujia 0.63 0.59 0.63 0.55 0.04 1 54 Uralic 0.39 0.38 0.39 0.37 0.01 1 86 Orig Ds: original density, PR Ds: density after applying PR check, Lg: number of languages selected, Diff: difference between original and modified density, Ev: borrowing events 37 / 45
  68. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Testing Specific Characteristics: Fake

    Neologisms Unmodified Modified Diff. Lg. Ev. Dataset Orig. Ds. PR Ds. Orig. Ds. PR Ds. Bahnaric 0.76 0.51 0.77 0.48 0.03 288 400 Chinese 0.68 0.55 0.69 0.47 0.09 162 270 Huon 0.48 0.19 0.50 0.17 0.01 98 139 Romance 0.90 0.38 0.91 0.32 0.07 924 440 Tujia 0.63 0.59 0.64 0.58 0.02 12 54 Uralic 0.39 0.38 0.41 0.40 -0.02 24 86 Orig Ds: original density, PR Ds: density after applying PR check, Lg: number of language pairs (donor-recipient), Diff: difference between original and modified density, Ev: borrowing events 38 / 45
  69. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Testing Specific Characteristics: Summary

    the fake borrowings lead as expected to a decrease in cognate density the fake neologisms also lead as expected to a decrease in cognate density even pulling out those correspondence patterns which are singletons or marking the cognate sets which have a low density seems like a valuable enterprise as it can help linguists to have another look at their data and check the findings manually 39 / 45
  70. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Examples Examples: Burmish Graph

    with Clique Cover (with N. Hill) tʃʰ s ʃ tʃʰ x j n◌̥ n n ŋ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tʃʰ pʰ pʰ pʰ j w x v x v x j x n n x x x n◌̥ x n m m m n kʰ kʰ kʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ kʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ - - - pʰ pʰ p j ɣ ɣ ɣ ɣ j j j n n n n m n n n n m m m m m m m m m m l l l p l l l l l l l kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ ʃ s s s k ʃ ʃ k s s k s ʃ ʃ ʃ t t t t t t t t t t t m m m m m m m m m p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p k k s kʰ kʰ k ʃ ŋ n m l t t l - tsʰ f tʃ k n n l ʃ tsʰ l s m t p k n kʰ m j m v j s tʃ n ts m l ŋ k kʰ v ʃ ʐ ʃ n k j - tʃ pʰ s v m k ŋ ŋ - n n l n◌̥ ŋ ŋ l l l l ʃ ʃ ts ʃ k s k s s s s s ts ts ts ts ts ts j k j ɣ k ŋ ŋ ŋ ŋ ŋ ŋ ŋ s s tʃ tʃ tʃ tʃ tʃ tʃ tʃ k k k k k ts p pʰ ts nʲ ŋ n ŋ k 40 / 45
  71. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Examples Examples: Burmish Graph

    with Clique Cover (with N. Hill) tʰ tʰ tʰ pʰ tʰ tʰ pʰ pʰ tʰ tʰ pʰ ŋ ŋ ŋ ŋ ŋ ŋ ŋ ŋ tsʰ tsʰ tʃʰ tsʰ tsʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ tsʰ j v f j v v ŋ - ŋ n◌̥ ŋ ŋ ŋ ʃ ʃ s ʃ ʃ ʃ ʃ ʃ ʃ s tʃ tʃ tʃ tʃ tʃ s tʃ tʃ tʃ tʃ x x tʃ x x x t t t t t t ʃ ʃ ʃ ʃ ʃ ʃ ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts t t t t t t t t m m m pʰ pʰ p p p m m s s s s s s s s s s n l l l l l l l l l l l l s s s s s s p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p pʰ p m m m m m m m l l l l l l l l - - j j j j j - j k ɣ ɣ ɣ ɣ ʐ ɣ w j - v v j j j k k k k k k k k k kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ k k k k k kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ kʰ x x x x n n◌̥ n n n n n ŋ n n n n n n n n n n n n k k k k k k m m m m m m m m - n n ŋ ŋ n n◌̥ n nʲ m m m m m m m m m 40 / 45
  72. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Examples Examples: Burmish Graph

    with Clique Cover (with N. Hill) tʃʰ tʃʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tʰ tʰ tsʰ tʃʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ 40 / 45
  73. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Examples Examples: Burmish Graph

    with Clique Cover (with N. Hill) tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ Clique Cogn. Concept Achang Atsi Bola Lashi Maru Old B. Rang. Xiand. 41 659 "goat" Ø Ø Ø Ø tʃʰ tsʰ sʰ Ø 41 672 "armpit" Ø Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø Ø Ø 41 433 "rice" tsʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø sʰ tsʰ Clique Cogn. Concept Achang Atsi Bola Lashi Maru Old B. Rang. Xiand. 74 55 "ten" Ø Ø tʰ tsʰ Ø Ø Ø tsʰ 42 53 "ten" tɕʰ tsʰ Ø Ø Ø tsʰ sʰ Ø 42 421 "salt" tɕʰ tsʰ tʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ sʰ cʰ 42 129 "twenty" Ø tsʰ tʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ sʰ Ø 83 287 "hair" Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ sʰ Ø Clique Cogn. Concept Achang Atsi Bola Lashi Maru Old B. Rang. Xiand. 17 639 "above" Ø tʰ tʰ Ø tʰ tʰ tʰ Ø 17 472 "sing" Ø tʰ tʰ Ø tʰ Ø Ø Ø 17 61 "that" tʰ Ø Ø tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ 17 323 "sharp" tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ Ø 17 66 "there" tʰ Ø tʰ tʰ tʰ Ø tʰ tʰ 17 547 "firewood" tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ 17 74 "thick" Ø tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ Ø tʰ Ø 40 / 45
  74. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Examples Examples: Burmish Graph

    with Clique Cover (with N. Hill) Clique Cogn. Concept Achang Atsi Bola Lashi Maru Old B. Rang. Xiand. 41 659 "goat" Ø Ø Ø Ø tʃʰ tsʰ sʰ Ø 41 672 "armpit" Ø Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø Ø Ø 41 433 "rice" tsʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ Ø sʰ tsʰ Clique Cogn. Concept Achang Atsi Bola Lashi Maru Old B. Rang. Xiand. 74 55 "ten" Ø Ø tʰ tsʰ Ø Ø Ø tsʰ 42 53 "ten" tɕʰ tsʰ Ø Ø Ø tsʰ sʰ Ø 42 421 "salt" tɕʰ tsʰ tʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ sʰ cʰ 42 129 "twenty" Ø tsʰ tʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ sʰ Ø 83 287 "hair" Ø tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ sʰ Ø Clique Cogn. Concept Achang Atsi Bola Lashi Maru Old B. Rang. Xiand. 17 639 "above" Ø tʰ tʰ Ø tʰ tʰ tʰ Ø 17 472 "sing" Ø tʰ tʰ Ø tʰ Ø Ø Ø 17 61 "that" tʰ Ø Ø tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ 17 323 "sharp" tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ Ø 17 66 "there" tʰ Ø tʰ tʰ tʰ Ø tʰ tʰ 17 547 "firewood" tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ 17 74 "thick" Ø tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ Ø tʰ Ø tʃʰ tʃʰ tʃʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tsʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ tʰ 40 / 45
  75. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Examples Examples: EDICTOR and

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  76. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Examples Outlook the proposed

    inference of correspondence patterns is a first attempt to account for systemic aspects of sound change in a rigorous manner 43 / 45
  77. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Examples Outlook the proposed

    inference of correspondence patterns is a first attempt to account for systemic aspects of sound change in a rigorous manner in contrast to many approaches proposed so far, it does not require family trees in any form, networks are just enough, but the patterns inferred can be used to study tree-like aspects of evolution (Chacon and List 2015), 43 / 45
  78. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Examples Outlook the proposed

    inference of correspondence patterns is a first attempt to account for systemic aspects of sound change in a rigorous manner in contrast to many approaches proposed so far, it does not require family trees in any form, networks are just enough, but the patterns inferred can be used to study tree-like aspects of evolution (Chacon and List 2015), the algorithm needs to be further tested we need a deeper discussion in the field about the importance of correspondence patterns for linguistic reconstruction 43 / 45
  79. A Method for Correspondence Pattern Recognition Examples Acknowledgements Nathan W.

    Hill (essential discussions on the implications of the procedure and further applications, intensive manual inspection of the output of the method) Taraka Rama (testing the method for alignment-based phylogenetic tree reconstruction, comments on draft and code) Eric Bapteste, Philippe Lopez, and their Team AIRE (providing initial inspiration and follow-up discussions on the approach, thanks to a similar approach applied in biology) 44 / 45