If only my results were this pretty
Feb. 8th, 2012 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erratioThis is a midpoint-rooted phoneme tree produced using a Bayesian approach, from a paper whose sole purpose is to debunk a recent-ish high profile paper that claimed a language's phoneme inventory is correlated with how far away it is from Africa, thus providing support for the out-of-Africa story of human origins.
What this picture shows: something to do with phonemic relatedness and geographic clustering and how they don't correlate particularly well. I'm not really sure, to be honest, I've never used that technique or read a paper that used it before, so my being a linguist isn't particularly helpful here. Although I will assume that the different colours correspond to different language families, since that's pretty standard.
Source: Language Log, which also goes into lots more detail about the paper and has lots of other colourful graphs, although none as cool as this one.
What this picture shows: something to do with phonemic relatedness and geographic clustering and how they don't correlate particularly well. I'm not really sure, to be honest, I've never used that technique or read a paper that used it before, so my being a linguist isn't particularly helpful here. Although I will assume that the different colours correspond to different language families, since that's pretty standard.
Source: Language Log, which also goes into lots more detail about the paper and has lots of other colourful graphs, although none as cool as this one.
