A probabilistic assessment of the Indo-Aryan Inner-Outer Hypothesis1footnote 11footnote 1To appear in Journal of Historical Linguistics 10.1 (https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/22102124).
Table 3: Mean per-word accuracy for each language for Dirichlet and Logistic Normal models
['language', 'avg.\xa0acc.\xa0(Dir)', 'avg.\xa0acc.\xa0(LN)']
(henceforth I refer only to accuracy scores from posterior with assignment simulations). While there is variation across languages, no clearly interpretable pattern emerges. Jaunsari, the language with the lowest mean per-word accuracy, is somewhat poorly represented (N=150). But Marwari, which is even more poorly attested (N=88), has a considerably higher mean accuracy value. Well-attested languages, where there is greater room for error in re-generating the data, also show relatively good performance. It is possible that these scores have something to do with the sound changes in the words included for each language, but any further understanding of this relationship remains elusive.