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<div class="csl-entry">Essfors, H. N. H. (2026). Phylogeny as a proxy for structural linguistic diversity: a reasonable approach? In <i>The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference (EVOLANG XVI)</i> (pp. 118–125). The Evolution of Language Conferences.</div>
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/231145
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dc.description.abstract
In this paper, the possibility of using phylogenetic relatedness as a proxy for linguistic similarity in the context of structural linguistic diversity is explored. The cross-linguistic databases Grambank, ASJP, and PHOIBLE are assessed on their suitability for deriving such measures in the context of global linguistic diversity. After intersecting the databases, measures of linguistic similarity and tree-topology similarity are derived between all pairs of languages and correlated. The results suggest a weak to moderate association between linguistic similarity measures and tree-topology similarity, concluding that phylogeny is a limited proxy and that large-scale studies of linguistic diversity should model structural dimensions separately.
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WWTF Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschu und Technologiefonds
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dc.language.iso
en
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dc.subject
Linguistic diversity measures
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dc.subject
Cross-linguistic linked data
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dc.subject
Jaccard similarity
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dc.subject
Levenshtein distance
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dc.subject
Correlation analysis
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dc.subject
Structural diversity
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dc.subject
Phylogenetic diversity
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dc.title
Phylogeny as a proxy for structural linguistic diversity: a reasonable approach?
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dc.type
Inproceedings
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Konferenzbeitrag
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dc.relation.doi
10.17617/2.3696655
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dc.description.startpage
118
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dc.description.endpage
125
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ICT23-012
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Full-Paper Contribution
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The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference (EVOLANG XVI)
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true
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The Evolution of Language Conferences
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Nijmegen
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tuw.project.title
Disentangling effects of digitization on linguistic diversity
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C6
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Modeling and Simulation
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100
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E194-04 - Forschungsbereich Data Science
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E056-27 - Fachbereich Digital Humanism
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8
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International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG XVI)
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tuw.event.startdate
07-04-2026
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10-04-2026
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On Site
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Plovdiv
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BG
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Essfors, Hannes Nils Hampus
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Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
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Informatik
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Mathematik
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E194-04 - Forschungsbereich Data Science
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E194 - Institut für Information Systems Engineering
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WWTF Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschu und Technologiefonds
