An experimental study comparing linguistic phylogenetic reconstruction methods

Francois Barbancon; Steven N. Evans; Luay Nakhleh; Don Ringe; Tandy Warnow

doi:10.1075/dia.30.2.01bar

An experimental study comparing linguistic phylogenetic reconstruction methods

Francois Barbancon, Steven N. Evans, Luay Nakhleh, Don Ringe, Tandy Warnow

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This paper reports a simulation study comparing and evaluating the performance of different linguistic phylogeny reconstruction methods on model datasets for which the true trees are known. UPGMA performed least well, then (in ascending order) neighbor joining, the method of Gray & Atkinson and finally maximum parsimony. Weighting characters greatly improves the accuracy of maximum parsimony and maximum compatibility if the characters with high weights exhibit low homoplasy.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	143-170
Number of pages	28
Journal	Diachronica
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.30.2.01bar
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Glottochronology
Indo-European
Lexicostatistics
Maximum compatibility
Maximum parsimony
Neighbor-joining
Phylogenetics
Simulation
UPGMA

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Linguistics and Language
Philosophy

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