Table 5 Spearman rank correlation (ρ) coefficients of feature values in WALS, Phoible and LexiCore, for five selected features, calculated for those parts of the data where information in all three dataset could be obtained, matching languages by their common Glottocodes.

From: Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features

Feature

WALS/LexiCore

WALS/Phoible

LexiCore/Phoible

Sample

ConsonantSize

0.66/p < 0.01

0.92/p < 0.01

0.70/p < 0.01

233

VowelQualitySize

0.51/p < 0.01

0.66/p < 0.01

0.68/p < 0.01

235

CVRatio

0.55/p < 0.01

0.76/p < 0.01

0.68/p < 0.01

235

PlosiveFricativeVoicing

0.54/p < 0.01

0.69/p < 0.01

0.59/p < 0.01

235

PlosiveVoicingGaps

0.40/p < 0.01

0.60/p < 0.01

0.56/p < 0.01

235

  1. When more than one language was available for the same Glottocode, the median value was taken.