Table 1.

Correlations between different implementations of measures of sound similarity and meaning similarity for each word set.

word set	meaning similarity measure	sound similarity measure	r	Mantel test, p
word forms	co-occurrence	phoneme feature edit	0.035	0.0001
		phoneme edit	0.035	0.0001
		Euclidean distance	0.028	0.0001
	feature	phoneme feature edit	0.033	0.0001
		phoneme edit	0.016	0.0001
		Euclidean distance	0.014	0.0001
word lemmas	co-occurrence	phoneme feature edit	0.031	0.0001
		phoneme edit	0.032	0.0001
		Euclidean distance	0.028	0.0001
	feature	phoneme feature edit	0.015	0.0001
		phoneme edit	0.016	0.0001
		Euclidean distance	0.012	0.0033
monomorphemes	co-occurrence	phoneme feature edit	0.034	0.0001
		phoneme edit	0.036	0.0001
		Euclidean distance	0.031	0.0001
	feature	phoneme feature edit	0.011	0.0001
		phoneme edit	0.011	0.0001
		Euclidean distance	0.008	0.0001
etymology	co-occurrence	phoneme feature edit	0.035	0.0002
		phoneme edit	0.044	0.0001
		Euclidean distance	0.030	0.0010
	feature	phoneme feature edit	0.008	0.0654
		phoneme edit	0.009	0.0548
		Euclidean distance	0.008	0.0716