pairwiseSCDistance: Pairwise shared Cognate distance

In KonstantinHoffmann/ABVDTools: Some useful tools for processing data from the ABVD database abvd.shh.mpg.de

Description

This calculates a distance based on the amount of shared cognates. Two languages share a cognate for a word if they have at least one cognate code in common for that word (e.g. if language 1 has for the concept cognate "1, 2" and language 2 has "1, 3", they share a cognate). The distance is then the proportion of concepts, where these two languages do not share a cognate.

Usage

pairwiseSCDistance(lang1, lang2, alignment)

Arguments

lang1	row index of the first language in the alignment
lang2	row index of the second language in the alignment
alignment	alignment matrix as created by createAlignmentMatrix()

KonstantinHoffmann/ABVDTools documentation built on Dec. 14, 2021, 11:48 a.m.