Diachronic Phonetic Anomalies & Feature Analysis
Identify, filter, and compare historical Elvish sound shifts using standard deviation thresholding across an 18-dimensional articulatory feature space.
Linguistic Codex: Phonetic Distance & Diachronic Anomalies
Historical linguistics categorizes sound changes into highly regular shifts vs irregular, anomalous mutations. In this dashboard, every ancestral transition (e.g. Primitive Common Eldarin *p ➔ Sindarin [v]) is analyzed mathematically. Each phoneme is represented as an 18-dimensional vector covering manner, place, voicing, and vowel height/roundedness. By calculating the Euclidean distance between these multi-dimensional vectors for aligned characters, we obtain a precise phonetic distance.
A transition is flagged as a Phonetic Anomaly if its normalized distance d exceeds the language's average distance μ by more than k standard deviations (d ≥ μ + kσ). Adjusting the Standard Deviation Slider (k) filters out standard mutations to expose highly irregular changes, whereas lower values expose conservative, stable transformations.
📊 Diachronic Phonetic Distance Scatter Plot (2,194 Shifts)
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Click on any circle in the scatter plot or a row in the anomalies table below to inspect its phonetic alignment grid.
🎓 Curated Case Studies
Click a historical anomaly below to automatically focus its coordinate on the scatter plot and analyze its articulatory feature shift:
🕸️ 18-D Articulatory Feature Vector Comparison
⚠️ Flagged Anomalies Under Current Threshold
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