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Fig. 4 | BMC Evolutionary Biology

Fig. 4

From: Evolution within a language: environmental differences contribute to divergence of dialect groups

Fig. 4

Observed vs predicted linguistic differences between the municipal dialects. Predicted differences between the municipal dialects calculated on the basis of (a) cultural differences (corresponds to fractions b, d, f and g in Fig. 2b), (b) environmental differences (corresponds to fractions a, d, e and g in Fig. 2b), (c) environment-cultural differences (corresponds to fractions a, d, e and g in Fig. 2c), (d) administrative and geographical distances (fractions b, c, d, e, f and g in Fig. 2c). Cultural and environmental features are given in Table 2. Pairing up the 471 municipal dialects resulted in 110,685 linguistic difference values, from which we randomly sampled 5% of the data points for the graphs, leading to N = 5535

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