Published August 29, 2023
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Supplementary materials of "Calibrated weighted permutation test detects ancient language connections in the Circumpolar area (Chukotian-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic)"
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Supplementary materials of the paper: Alexei S. Kassian, George Starostin, Mikhail Zhivlov, Sergey A. Spirin. Calibrated weighted permutation test detects ancient language connections in the Circumpolar area (Chukotian-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic). Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.00014.kas.
The Supplement includes the datasets, descriptions, comments and all technical files which makes our linguistic experiment fully reproducible:
- Supplement text (pdf): 1. Consonant classes; 2. Weighted permutation test; 3. Negative control and calibration of permutation test outcomes; 4. Pairwise comparison between Yeniseian, Burushaski and all the Na-Dene wordlists; 5. CC-matches in statistically significant pairs (Chukotian-Itelmen, Nivkh, Samoyed, Yukaghir, Yeniseian, Na-Dene, Burushaski); 6. Basic information on the language families and groups; 7. Linguistic comments on individual Swadesh forms; 8. Transcription system.
- Supplement tables (xls): 1. Stability of the Swadesh concepts; 2. 110-item wordlists for the languages of the Circumpolar area; 3. Weighted permutation test for the negative control group; 4. Consonant classes.
- Technical files of the permutation test: 1. Circumpolar languages; 2. Negative control group (incl. dataset); 3. Positive control group; 4. Yeniseian-Dene-Burushaski hypothesis
The software package is available at https://github.com/dmkrylov/starling-permutation-test