glottochronology

How To Use glottochronology In A Sentence

• Despite the outcry, glottochronology is still employed, but in mathematically increasingly complex and conceptually more sophisticated models.
• It is important to recognize, however, that many linguists do not agree on the validity and accuracy of glottochronology and lexicostatistics in determining linguistic diffusion. Are you related to the Aztecs?
• New methods in glottochronology provide logical and empirical proof that the second assumption is true.
• Many of the papers in these volumes show a revival of interest in the much criticised techniques of glottochronology and lexicostatistics.
• Some 20th-century introductions into linguistic vocabulary make use of the root: we find Bloomfield's glosseme and Hjelmslev's glossematics; the isoglottic line of linguistic geography; and glottochronology, Swadesh's system for dating the divergence of linguistic family members. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
• It differs from glottochronology in the methods used to construct the tree and compute the dates.
• he mapped the glottochronology of the Romance languages
• The basic fallacy of glottochronology lies in the fact that it a priori assumes that all languages change at the same rate all the time.
• Unfortunately, the last published glottochronology for all the Caddoan languages dates to the 1960s, before the technique was refined.