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- a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language
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- On the accounting and software loggia not from stark softening thevetia, but from an unary, yet acetic nihau of unappreciated aglow lexicostatistics. Rational Review
- 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?
- Many of the papers in these volumes show a revival of interest in the much criticised techniques of glottochronology and lexicostatistics.
- Like lexicostatistics it counts shared similarities instead of only counting shared innovations. How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage
- On the other hand, I agree that lexicostatistics does little good. How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage
- Starostin's odd pretensions of having "proven" Altaic by lexicostatistics, which have nothing to do with the rest of the EDAL... How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage
- When linguists set up sets of words for lexical comparison, whether for classical subgrouping or for lexicostatistics, they are typically arranged by glosses.