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In:Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019
Edited by Bethwyn Evans, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 367] 2024
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Chapter 4
Solving Galton’s problem

Practical solutions for analysing language diversity and evolution

 | Australian National University
Published online: 21 November 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.367.04bro
Abstract
Comparisons between languages can illuminate processes of language change by revealing meaningful associations between language features or the influence of external factors on the patterns and rates of language change. But comparisons between languages raise statistical challenges, because close relatives will tend to be more similar to each other, compared with more distantly related languages, and languages from the same areas will be subject to many of the same influences. Therefore, observations made on different languages will usually fail to meet the requirement of statistical independence inherent in standard statistical testing. This fundamental challenge of cross-cultural analysis, known as Galton’s problem, is no cause for despair because there are a range of workable solutions using widely available data. This paper discusses a range of practical solutions, including phylogenetic analysis, sister pair comparisons, and spatially structured models, that can be applied to analyses of language variation and change.
Article outline
  • 1.What is Galton’s problem?
  • 2.Who has Galton’s problem?
  • 3.Practical solutions to the problem of relatedness
    • 3.1Solution 1: Use a phylogeny
    • 3.2Solution 2: Use taxonomic information
    • 3.3Solution 3: Sister pairs
  • 4.Practical solutions to the problem of proximity
    • 4.1Solution 1: Grid-based spatial data
    • 4.2Solution 2: Distance between languages
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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