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title = "Are Sounds Sound for Phylogenetic Reconstruction?",
author = {H{\"a}user, Luise and
J{\"a}ger, Gerhard and
List, Johann-Mattis and
Rama, Taraka and
Stamatakis, Alexandros},
editor = "Hahn, Michael and
Sorokin, Alexey and
Kumar, Ritesh and
Shcherbakov, Andreas and
Otmakhova, Yulia and
Yang, Jinrui and
Serikov, Oleg and
Rani, Priya and
Ponti, Edoardo M. and
Murado{\u{g}}lu, Saliha and
Gao, Rena and
Cotterell, Ryan and
Vylomova, Ekaterina",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP",
month = mar,
year = "2024",
address = "St. Julian's, Malta",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigtyp-1.11/",
pages = "78--87",
abstract = "In traditional studies on language evolution, scholars often emphasize the importance of sound laws and sound correspondences for phylogenetic inference of language family trees. However, to date, computational approaches have typically not taken this potential into account. Most computational studies still rely on lexical cognates as major data source for phylogenetic reconstruction in linguistics, although there do exist a few studies in which authors praise the benefits of comparing words at the level of sound sequences. Building on (a) ten diverse datasets from different language families, and (b) state-of-the-art methods for automated cognate and sound correspondence detection, we test, for the first time, the performance of sound-based versus cognate-based approaches to phylogenetic reconstruction. Our results show that phylogenies reconstructed from lexical cognates are topologically closer, by approximately one third with respect to the generalized quartet distance on average, to the gold standard phylogenies than phylogenies reconstructed from sound correspondences."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Are Sounds Sound for Phylogenetic Reconstruction?
%A Häuser, Luise
%A Jäger, Gerhard
%A List, Johann-Mattis
%A Rama, Taraka
%A Stamatakis, Alexandros
%Y Hahn, Michael
%Y Sorokin, Alexey
%Y Kumar, Ritesh
%Y Shcherbakov, Andreas
%Y Otmakhova, Yulia
%Y Yang, Jinrui
%Y Serikov, Oleg
%Y Rani, Priya
%Y Ponti, Edoardo M.
%Y Muradoğlu, Saliha
%Y Gao, Rena
%Y Cotterell, Ryan
%Y Vylomova, Ekaterina
%S Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP
%D 2024
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C St. Julian’s, Malta
%F hauser-etal-2024-sounds
%X In traditional studies on language evolution, scholars often emphasize the importance of sound laws and sound correspondences for phylogenetic inference of language family trees. However, to date, computational approaches have typically not taken this potential into account. Most computational studies still rely on lexical cognates as major data source for phylogenetic reconstruction in linguistics, although there do exist a few studies in which authors praise the benefits of comparing words at the level of sound sequences. Building on (a) ten diverse datasets from different language families, and (b) state-of-the-art methods for automated cognate and sound correspondence detection, we test, for the first time, the performance of sound-based versus cognate-based approaches to phylogenetic reconstruction. Our results show that phylogenies reconstructed from lexical cognates are topologically closer, by approximately one third with respect to the generalized quartet distance on average, to the gold standard phylogenies than phylogenies reconstructed from sound correspondences.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigtyp-1.11/
%P 78-87
Markdown (Informal)
[Are Sounds Sound for Phylogenetic Reconstruction?](https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigtyp-1.11/) (Häuser et al., SIGTYP 2024)
ACL
- Luise Häuser, Gerhard Jäger, Johann-Mattis List, Taraka Rama, and Alexandros Stamatakis. 2024. Are Sounds Sound for Phylogenetic Reconstruction?. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, pages 78–87, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.