Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (DiACL)-A database for ancient language typology.

PLoS One · 2018 · PMC6181559 · PMID 30307985

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highly significantp < .001actually significant

Geographic distance, chronological distance, and the interaction term all have a highly significant effect ( p < .001).

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a weak trendno p-value reported

The plot shows a weak trend in which linguistic distance increases as chronological distance increases; however, the association is highly heteroscedastic, with higher variance in linguistic distance for lower values of chronological distance.

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